In a Washington Post op/ed, Florida Congresswoman Val Demings urged voters to remove from office those republicans who blocked the impeachment of President Trump, saying “My parents taught me that right and wrong are supposed to matter in America. I bet you think so, too.”
On the rumored short list of potential Vice Presidential nominees, Demings noted that the evidence presented during the impeachment hearings overwhelming demonstrated the guilt of Trump on a variety of crimes.
“The overwhelming evidence in Trump’s impeachment — which showed that he abused his power, threatened our national security interests to cheat in the 2020 election and then attempted to cover it up ― was the kind of evidence any police detective would love in a case,” Demings, a former chief of police in Orlando, wrote.
Demings called out a number of Senators in tough reelection races for their misprision of the crimes Trump committed, saying that the actions Trump took to have Ukraine influence the 2020 election was simply and obviously wrong.
“A child could understand this. Why not Sen. Martha McSally of Arizona? Why not Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, Sen. David Perdue of Georgia or Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa? Why was it too hard for Sen. Susan Collins of Maine to say, ‘It’s wrong to break the law and undermine our democracy’?” Demings wrote. “Why couldn’t Montana’s Steve Daines or North Carolina’s Thom Tillis, or 45 other Republicans take a simple stand for right rather than wrong?”
Demings implied that the reason these Senators voted to acquit Trump was not that they thought he was innocent nor a belief in some type of injustice befalling Trump, but more a fear of losing money, power and influence because republican voters would turn on them.
“Perhaps, as Upton Sinclair once wrote, ‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.’
“But you, reader, have no such impediment. And in just a few short months, you may be able to remove that burden from your senator,” stated Demings.