First two Capitol riot defendants indicted in Washington, including man alleged to have bombs
Rep. Norma Torres, a Democrat from California, stated throughout a debate of the House Rules Committee today that “there should be no question” that Vice President Mike Pence ought to invoke the twenty fifth Amendment and take away President Trump from workplace.
Torres stated she was among the many lawmakers trapped in the balcony of the House chamber in the course of the Jan. 6 assault towards the Capitol.
“I was one of 12 trapped in the House gallery. I heard the shot being fired. I saw the smoke from the tear gas having been deployed, and I watched one officer with no protective equipment face a raging mob just outside the chamber. He crawled across the entire length of that balcony. I was in the last group to be evacuated. We ran down the halls, stairs, near a mob that was being held on the ground at gunpoint. I sheltered for four to five hours in a room that was packed shoulder to shoulder with people,” Torres described.
Torres stated that when she was lastly evacuated from the Capitol at 3 p.m. ET, and “was running for my life,” she obtained a name from her son.
“I answered my phone to my son, Christopher. The call lasted 27 seconds. All I could say, was sweetheart, I’m okay. I’m running for my life. And I hung up,” Torres stated.
The lawmaker additionally known as on her colleague’s to assist Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin’s decision calling on Pence “to immediately use his powers under section 4 of the 25th Amendment to convene and mobilize the principal officers of the executive departments in the Cabinet to declare what is obvious to a horrified nation.”
“I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to join me in supporting this resolution, but most of all, I urge Vice President Pence to do the right thing,” Torres stated.
“The Raskin resolution is not a political document, it takes no partisan position. And anyone who says otherwise is being irresponsible and is continuing to advance a hateful agenda of Donald Trump,” she continued.
Torres additionally despatched a message to Trump: “How dare you! How dare you incite a mob to stop the final step in certifying our election simply because they want to pick and choose whose vote should count and whose vote should not count.”
Hear her describe the emotional telephone name:
