As previously reported by News Front, US Democrats have initiated the second impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. The pretext for such a step was the storming of the Capitol. Prosecutors claim that the 45th US president had called for an attack on the US parliament building and insist that Trump be banned from holding public office
Many of his fellow Republicans have stood up for the already former president, but there are also those who stand in solidarity with Democrats. This has led to controversy, and dozens of Republican politicians are now discussing the creation of a new centre-right party, as four people involved in the talks have told Reuters.
Politicians who have held elected positions in the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and George W. Bush, as well as Donald Trump himself, are reportedly backing the idea. They were joined by former Republican ambassadors and political technicians.
All these politicians accuse the Republican Party of not wanting to stand up to Trump. Last Friday, 120 such “defectors” held video conference talks. They discussed creating their own party that would adhere to “principled conservatism”.
One of the organisers of the discussion was Evan McMullin, who ran for president as an independent candidate in 2016. Also among the participants were John Mitnick, general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security under Trump, former Republican congressman Charlie Dent, Elizabeth Neumann, deputy chief of staff for the Department of Homeland Security under Trump, and Trump security official Miles Taylor.
The conferees said they were particularly concerned about the decision by 8 senators and 139 Republican members of the House of Representatives to vote to block recognition of Joe Biden’s election victory. They are also uncomfortable with the refusal of a majority of Republican senators to support impeachment.