Liz Cheney, No. 3 GOP Leader, Will Vote to Impeach Trump
- Wyoming’s Cheney had defended Trump in earlier impeachment
- At least three other House Republicans also back impeachment
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Republican Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican leader, said she will vote to impeach Donald Trump, a major split within the party after the president’s supporters stormed the Capitol last week.
“On Jan. 6, 2021 a violent mob attacked the United States Capitol to obstruct the process of our democracy and stop the counting of presidential electoral votes,” Cheney, of Wyoming, said in a statement. “The president of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing.”