'Crime scene': One week after attack, House Democrats open Trump impeachment debate

Published January 13, 2021 12:00am ET



House Democrats launched an unprecedented second impeachment of the president, one week after violent protesters mobbed the Capitol to demand President Trump be declared the winner of the presidential election.

“This was not a protest. This was an insurrection,” House Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern, a Massachusetts Democrat, said, opening the debate. “This was a well-organized attack on our country that was incited by Donald Trump.”

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