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Yvette Clarke: Today, I rise to support H. Res. 24, the Article of Impeachment against Donald Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors…

On the recordJanuary 13, 2021
Today, I rise to support H. Res. 24, the Article of Impeachment against Donald Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors for a second time. Let us be very clear, what took place on January 6, 2021, was an act of domestic terrorism by rightwing sycophantic white supremacists, promoted, instigated, and advanced by the man in the White House, Donald Trump. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once said: ``The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.''
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Yvette Clarke
Democratic · New York
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Jan 13, 2021

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