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On the recordJanuary 13, 2021
Donald Trump is the most dangerous man to ever occupy the Oval Office. Madam Speaker, I want to take you back 1 week ago today when people were barging through these doors and breaking the windows with weapons, armed, pipe bombs, coming here to harm all of you, to harm the Speaker, and to harm the Senate. Madam Speaker, let me ask you a question: What do you think they would have done if they had gotten in? What do you think they would have done to you, and who do you think sent them here? The most dangerous man to ever occupy the Oval Office. If inciting a deadly insurrection is not enough to get a President impeached, then what is? All of us must answer that question today. The Constitution requires us to impeach and remove Donald John Trump.
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Joaquin Castro
Democratic · Texas

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