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IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
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HON. CAROLYN BOURDEAUX
of georgia
in the house of representatives
Monday, January 25, 2021
Ms. BOURDEAUX. Madam Speaker, I teach a class called Public Service and Democracy where often I point out that our democracy is not self-
executing, it requires people of good faith and ethics to make it work.
Our President and those who enable him are not operating in good faith. I come from Georgia, one of the most contested states during this election cycle and I'm no stranger to fighting for voting rights or concerns about election results.
I've fought for years to protect our elections in Georgia and expand access to the ballot box--so I know a thing or two about free and fair elections.
Let's be clear: Georgia's elections were administered by Republicans who themselves voted for and campaigned for President Trump. So if there was fraud, I'm sure they would have found it. At the request of the President and his surrogates, Republicans have looked high and low for voter fraud and have found nothing.
Georgia officials, at significant cost to the taxpayers I might add, have counted the five million votes in Georgia three times, once by hand, and only found minor errors that would not change the outcome of the election.
They have audited 15,000 voter signatures and again only found the most trivial of problems, and nothing that would indicate voter fraud.
They have investigated every charge, every conspiracy with diligence and have come up with nothing.
The idea that Georgia's vote was illegitimate is a lie. There is no way around it.
But the President didn't like the results, so he tried to extort, bully, and threaten our Secretary of State to change the election results. Now, we actually have attempted election fraud--but from our President. And we have his conversation on tape.
When his plan to solicit fraud failed, the President then incited a violent mob on the basis of lies to come to the Capitol and try to disrupt the constitutionally required certification of the election. This was a mob with zip tie handcuffs, tactical military gear, and weapons. A mob that hung a noose on the mall for Vice President Mike Pence. Then as the Capitol Police made desperate pleas for the deployment of the national guard to help respond to the insurrection, their request was denied by the President.
A democracy requires people of good faith and ethics to make it work. I ask my colleagues to reject the lies and to support the article of impeachment against President Donald Trump.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 14
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