Un earthquake that gives birth to a small tsunami. A week after the attempted putsch by Trump supporters on Capitol Hill, a growing number of Republican elected officials was preparing to support the parliamentary impeachment procedure initiated by the Democrats on Wednesday. “Eager to be on the right side of history” in the words of Representative Liz Cheney, these city officials are traumatized by the assault on Congress, in which a physical confrontation with the attackers was narrowly avoided. “The President of the United States called this crowd, gathered it, and struck the match for this attack,” said Liz Cheney, daughter of former George W. Bush vice-president Dick Cheney. “There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of his responsibilities and his oath taken on the Constitution.”
