Susan Collins Defends Vote to Convict Trump: It Was a ‘Culmination of Actions’ that Started ‘Even Be

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Susan Collins Defends Vote to Convict Trump: It Was a ‘Culmination of Actions’ that Started ‘Even Before the Election’

Hannah Bleau 16 Feb 2021

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) defended her decision to convict former President Donald Trump for incitement of insurrection during an appearance Tuesday on WLOB radio with host Ray Richardson, explaining that she voted to convict Trump not just based on his January 6 speech alone but his “culmination of actions which started even before the election occurred.”

Collins is one of seven GOP senators — including Sens. Richard Burr (R-NC), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Ben Sasse (R-NE), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Pat Toomey (R-PA), and Mitt Romney (R-UT) — who sided with Democrats and voted to convict Trump on Saturday. Senators ultimately failed to reach a two-thirds majority to convict, and the GOP lawmakers who sided with Democrats are now facing immense backlash from conservatives in their respective states. The Louisiana GOP quickly censured Cassidy, and the North Carolina GOP followed suit, censuring Burr on Monday. Others, including Romney and Collins, are facing similar actions by their state parties.

Nevertheless, Collins has continued to defend her vote to convict Trump but said that his actions — those she essentially convicted him for — ultimately began before the election even took place. She cited his warnings of the potential of mass election fraud — a concern many voters shared and continue to hold, despite the establishment’s determination to move on:

To me, the key issue is that in our county, the hallmark of our American democracy is the peaceful transfer of power after the voters chose their leader, whether or not we agree with the election results as individuals. And if there’s fraud, if a candidate believes there’s fraud, the candidate — as President Trump did — can go to the courts. And, indeed, he filed some 61 court cases, and each of them was rejected. So what the president did was he sought to prevent the fair counting of the electoral vote on January 6 and that is — and this to me is the key issue — that is a constitutionally mandated process that it sets forth in the 12th Amendment.

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she voted to convict Trump not just based on his January 6 speech alone but his “culmination of actions which started even before the election occurred.”

Then she broke her oath..the charge was causing an insurrection on Jan 6th...