A group of assistants to members of the U.S. House of Representatives plans to call members of the U.S. Senate to convict former President Trump on a charge of “inciting an uprising.”
The request is set out in a draft letter circulated on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. Fox News has received a copy.
The letter gives no indication as to whether the aid workers distributing it work for House Democrats or House Republicans, or for members of both parties. It reads at the end that signatories are “currently being collected.”
No signatories were listed on the copy Fox News received.
The letter reads that on January 6, “our workplace was attacked by a violent mob that tried to stop the election college count. The mob was incited by former president Donald J. Trump and his political allies, of whom we are in the daily corridors at work. ‘
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According to the letter, a number of assistants acted to protect themselves on January 6 after being raised in an era of mass shootings and other horrific events in the past quarter century.
‘Many of us attended school after the Columbine era,’ reads the letter referring to a carnage in Colorado in 1999, ‘and was trained to respond to active shooting situations in our classrooms. While the mob broke through the barricades of the Capitol police. many of us hid behind chairs and under desks or we were loaded into the Capitol with body armor and weapons. Others watched TV and frantically tried to reach bosses and colleagues as they fled for their lives. . “
The letter claims that Trump deserves conviction.
“On January 6, the former president broke America’s 230-year legacy over the peaceful transition of power when he incited a mob to disrupt the counting of votes for the Electoral College,” the letter reads. “Six people have died. A Capitol police officer – one of our associates who looks after and greets us every day – has been beaten to death. The attack on our workplace was inspired by lies told by the former president and others about the election results.” an unfounded, months-long attempt to reject votes that the American people have legally cast. ‘
The question of whether Trump is guilty of the House administration’s charge is what will determine a planned Senate hearing.
On January 13, a week after the riot at the Capitol, the US House accused Trump on a charge of inciting an uprising in connection with the January 6 riot, which linked the riot to a speech that Trump delivered at a nearby outside protest on the same day.
“If you do not fight like hell, you will not have a country anymore,” Trump said at one point.
The indictment was delivered to the Senate on Monday, with senators sworn in as jury members on Tuesday.
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The trial is expected to take place in February – although 45 Senate Republicans opposed the plan Tuesday in a procedural vote, claiming that a trial should not be held because Trump is no longer in office.
Others have argued that an accusation will further divide the US
U.S. Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., Who on Tuesday called for the trial vote, argued that the opposition of 45 members of the GOP means the Trump trial would “be dead on arrival” without it would have a chance to convict Trump.
Fox News’ Chad Pergram contributed to this story.