President Trump is “entirely unfit to remain in office,” a junior State Department official argued after a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol to oppose the affirmation of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 campaign.
“President Trump fomented an insurrectionist mob that attacked the Capitol today,” State Department special adviser Gabriel Noronha tweeted Wednesday night. “He continues to take every opportunity to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power.”
Noronha, a former Senate Armed Services Committee staffer, is a spokesman and congressional relations aide focused on Iran. His condemnation echoed Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney’s conclusion that the riot at the Capitol amounted to “insurrection, incited by the President of the United States,” which the State Department official promoted on Twitter.
“Trump is entirely unfit to remain in office, and needs to go,” he tweeted. “All government officials swear to uphold and defend the constitution. That is where our loyalties must lie — not to any man or political party.”
President Trump fomented an insurrectionist mob that attacked the Capitol today. He continues to take every opportunity to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power. These actions threaten our democracy and our Republic. Trump is entirely unfit to remain in office, and needs to go.
— Gabriel Noronha (@GLNoronha) January 7, 2021
Noronha has been a member of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s Iran Action Group since 2018, according to his LinkedIn page.
“Those who invade the Capitol or encourage those who do doesn’t just ‘border; on sedition. It *is* sedition, plain and simple,” Noronha said, noting that the legal definition of “seditious conspiracy” includes a ban on the use of “force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States.”
Those who invade the Capitol or encourage those who do doesn’t just “border” on sedition. It *is* sedition, plain and simple.
Legal definition includes: “…by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States…”https://t.co/Bst8Rb7UYC
— Gabriel Noronha (@GLNoronha) January 6, 2021
