3 takeaways from GOP Rep. Tom Rice's defense of impeaching Trump
“Democracy is a fragile thing,” Rice began, “and the one thing we have to protect us from tyranny is our Constitution, and our Constitution has to be protected at all costs.”
Rice described the scene inside the Capitol during the attack and then said that after they were evacuated, he couldn’t understand why Trump had yet to appear on Fox News to help quell the violence. About 20 minutes into the assault, Trump, whom he had been pressuring to unilaterally overturn the 2020 election results. That, for Rice, was the last straw.
“My friends, you can argue about whether his speech that morning was incitement or not, but to me, that one tweet was incitement,” Rice said. “If they’d have gotten ahold of Mike Pence, we could have lost our democracy that day.” “So, in my opinion, our Constitution is too precious to risk,” Rice continued. “And the one difference between me and all those leaders back in Washington who said, ‘Oh, Donald Trump went too far. He should be impeached. He should be removed,’ and then voted the other way? I took the principled stand, and I defended our Constitution.”
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