To: @senatemajld, @LindseyGrahamSC, et al. I know you and your colleagues have been able to overlook things like:

1. The Central Park Five
2. Birtherism
3. Mocking a disabled reporter
4. Mexicans are rapists
5. Two dozen accusations of sexual assault
6. Lock her up

1/

And the GOP was okay with:

7. Hush payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal
8. No commitment to accept the 2016 election results
9. Grab ‘em by the pussy
10. Trump University fraud
11. Manafort, Steven Bannon, Roger Stone, Stephen Miller
12. The Muslim ban

2/
And you didn't balk at:

13. Separating families and keeping kids in cages
14. Siding with Putin over US intelligence agencies
15. The firing of the FBI director
16. Very fine people on both sides
17. Corruption in (and dissolution of) the Trump foundation
18. Jamal Khashoggi

3/
And you didn't say much about:

19. The free press being labeled the enemy of the people
20. The trans ban in the military
21. The Kim-Jong Un handshake in the DMZ
22. Pressuring the president of Ukraine to interfere in an American election
23. Only $750 paid in income taxes

4/
And you mostly blew off or made excuses for:

24. Coronavirus is a democrat hoax
25. Coronavirus will disappear on its own
26. Injecting bleach
27. Mocking mask wearing
28. Super-spreader rallies in the midst of a pandemic
29. Nearly 400,000 Americans dead from Coronavirus

5/
Even this barely gave you pause:

30. Rubber bullets and tear gas deployed against peaceful protesters
31. Two months of lies and frivolous lawsuits after a free and fair election
32. The pardoning of political allies
33. The pardoning of convicted war criminals

6/
But now we have:

34. Pressuring election officials to "find ballots"
35. Inciting a lethal insurrection at the US Capitol
36. Chants of "Hang Mike Pence"
36. A Capitol Police officer, dead after being hit in the head with a fire extinguisher
....

7/
....And we have that shameful video, taped in the Rose Garden at the White House, with a clear message to the insurrectionists and murderers from Donald J. Trump --- “We love you. You’re very special.”

What about that? Will you overlook that too? Pretend it didn't happen?

8/
Democrats will soon control the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. This is how America has held Donald Trump and the GOP accountable. The Republican party itself, though, has yet to step up in the most meaningful and critical way.

9/
While it's too late for the GOP to save the soul of their party, for the good of our democracy and for the safety of all Americans, it’s not too late for individual Republican leaders to find their moral compass, summon their courage, and do the right thing – remove him now.

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