The impeachment article identified Trump’s many false election claims “in the months preceding the Joint Session,” as well as Trump’s claims that the state electoral results “should not be accepted.” It also cited Trump’s “prior efforts to subvert and obstruct” the lawful results of the 2020 election. The article summarized Trump’s conduct this way: Donald Trump “interfered with the peaceful transition of power and imperiled a coequal branch of Government. He thereby betrayed his trust as President, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.”
