A day after former President Donald Trump won his second Senate impeachment trial, bipartisan support appeared to be growing for an independent Sept. 11-style commission into the deadly insurrection that took place at the Capitol.
Investigations into the riot were already planned, with Senate hearings scheduled later this month in the Senate Rules Committee. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has asked retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré to lead an immediate review of the Capitol's security process.
Lawmakers from both parties, speaking on Sunday's news shows, signaled that even more inquiries were likely. The Senate verdict Saturday, with its 57-43 majority falling 10 votes short of the two-thirds needed to convict Trump, hardly put to rest the debate about the former president's culpability for the Jan. 6 assault.
바카라There should be a complete investigation about what happened,바카라 said Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, one of seven Republicans who voted to convict Trump. 바카라What was known, who knew it and when they knew, all that, because that builds the basis so this never happens again.바카라
An independent commission along the lines of the one that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks would probably require legislation to create. That would elevate the investigation a step higher, offering a definitive government-backed accounting of events. Pelosi has expressed support for such a commission.
바카라There's still more evidence that the American people need and deserve to hear and a 9/11 commission is a way to make sure that we secure the Capitol going forward,바카라 said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., a Biden ally. 바카라And that we lay bare the record of just how responsible and how abjectly violating of his constitutional oath President Trump really was.바카라
House prosecutors who argued for Trump's conviction of inciting the riot said Sunday they had proved their case. They also railed against the Senate's Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, and others who they said were 바카라trying to have it both ways바카라 in finding the former president not guilty but criticizing him at the same time.
A close Trump ally, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., voted for acquittal but acknowledged that Trump had some culpability for the siege at the Capitol that killed five people, including a police officer, and disrupted lawmakers' certification of Biden's White House victory. Graham said he looked forward to campaigning with Trump in the 2022 election, when Republicans hope to regain the congressional majority.
바카라His behavior after the election was over the top,바카라 Graham said. 바카라We need a 9/11 commission to find out what happened and make sure it never happens again.바카라
The Senate acquitted Trump of a charge of 바카라incitement of insurrection바카라 after House prosecutors laid out a case that he was an 바카라inciter in chief바카라 who unleashed a mob by stoking a monthslong campaign of spreading debunked conspiracy theories and false violent rhetoric that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
Trump's lawyers countered that Trump's words were not intended to incite the violence and that impeachment was nothing but a 바카라witch hunt바카라 designed to prevent him from serving in office again.
The conviction tally was the most bipartisan in American history but left Trump to declare victory and signal a political revival while a bitterly divided GOP bickered over its direction and his place in the party.
The Republicans who joined Cassidy in voting to convict were Sens. Richard Burr of North Carolina, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
바카라It's frustrating, but the founders knew what they were doing and so we live with the system that we have,바카라 Democratic Del. Stacey Plaskett, a House prosecutor who represents the Virgin Islands, said of the verdict, describing it as 바카라heartbreaking.바카라 She added: 바카라But, listen, we didn't need more witnesses. We needed more senators with spines.바카라
McConnell told Republican senators shortly before the vote that he would vote to acquit Trump. In a blistering speech after the vote, the Kentucky Republican said the president was 바카라practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day" but that the Senate's hands were tied to do anything about it because Trump was out of office. The Senate, in an earlier vote, had deemed the trial constitutional.
바카라It was powerful to hear the 57 guilties and then it was puzzling to hear and see Mitch McConnell stand and say not guilty' and then, minutes later, stand again and say he was guilty of everything,바카라 said Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa. 바카라History will remember that statement of speaking out of two sides of his mouth,바카라 she said.
Dean also backed the idea of an impartial investigative commission "not guided by politics but filled with people who would stand up to the courage of their conviction.바카라
The lead House impeachment manager, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., called the trial a 바카라dramatic success in historical terms바카라 by winning unprecedented support from GOP senators. He said the verdict didn't match the reality of the strength of evidence.
바카라We successfully prosecuted him and convicted him in the court of public opinion and the court of history,바카라 he said. Pointing to McConnell and other Republican senators critical of Trump but voting to acquit, Raskin said, 바카라They're trying to have it both ways.바카라
