Impeachment managers: Trial is referendum on Trump ever holding office again
A House impeachment manager acknowledged on Sunday that one reason for charging President Donald Trump with incitement of insurrection was to prevent the outgoing commander in chief from trying to become president again.
“One of the other purposes of impeachment in this case is to make sure that President Trump is not able to run for federal office again, that he’s not able to seek the presidency,” Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.”
“The reason for that is that somebody who incited a riot, an attempted coup of the United States government, should not be president again,” he continued. “So it’s not just about making sure that there are consequences to his behavior. Certainly it’s that, but even after he’s left office, it’s also making sure that he can’t run for president again.”
Castro is one of the nine impeachment managers House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced last week, shortly before Democrats and 10 Republicans voted to impeach the president for inciting a deadly attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6. Led by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the lawmakers will serve as prosecutors in the looming impeachment trial in the Senate, which isn’t expected to begin until after Joe Biden is sworn in as president on Wednesday.
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