McGovern on Trump impeachment: ‘America was attacked and America must respond’
U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern delivered the opening statement in the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
“We are debating this historic measure at a crime scene,” said McGovern, who represents Grafton, referring to last week’s mob attack on the U.S. Capitol as Congress formalized the election of President-elect Joe Biden.
“This was not a protest this was an insurrection,” he said. He called the rioters “traitors” and “domestic terrorists” and said “they we acting under the order of Donald Trump.”
Trump would be the first president impeached twice if the measure passes.
