Lady Gaga Hopes 'We Focus To Impeach Trump' After Capitol Riots: 'He Incited Domestic Terror'
KEY POINTS
- Lady Gaga wants President Donald Trump to be impeached instead of removed from office
- Trump could still seek reelection in the future if he were stripped of power via the 25th amendment
- Gaga said Trump "incited" the violence at the Capitol Wednesday that left five people dead
Lady Gaga believes pursuing the impeachment of President Donald Trump would be a better move than trying to remove him from office by invoking the 25th amendment.
Gaga has joined the celebrities, personalities and politicians calling for the impeachment of the president after a mob of pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol protesting the outcome of the 2020 election. The violence resulted in five deaths, including one police officer, and 68 have been arrested.
"I hope we focus to impeach Trump so Congress has the constitutional authority to possibly disqualify him from future election—the #25thAmendment doesn’t disqualify him," she tweeted Thursday. "He incited domestic terror—how much more violence needs to happen? This is terrorism."
Gaga is far from the only one to lay the blame for the mayhem at the Capitol on Trump. Former President Barack Obama, in a statement Wednesday, said the violence was "incited by a sitting president who has continued to baselessly lie about the outcome of a lawful election."
Hillary Clinton's daughter, Chelsea Clinton, also said Trump should be held accountable for the Capitol breach.
"And we have to hold our president accountable -- who incited them, egged them on. While it's good that Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have locked [Trump's] account, it's insufficient to put it mildly. We have to stop not only the amplification but the injection of hate and instability and violence that he has personified over the last years," Chelsea said.
Meanwhile, in November, the "A Star Is Born" actress mocked Trump after his communications director Tim Murtaugh called her "anti-fracking activist."
"HEY TIM HEY @realDonaldTrump SO HAPPY IM GLAD TO BE LIVING RENT FREE in your HEAD," she wrote, before expressing support for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
"Now he's got Lady Gaga," Trump said while campaigning in Avoca, Pennsylvania, following the singer's statement. "Lady Gaga — is not too good. I could tell you plenty of stories. I could tell you stories about Lady Gaga. I know a lot of stories about Lady Gaga."
Gaga fired back at Trump when she later joined Biden at a Pittsburgh drive-in rally.
"To all the women, and to all the men with daughters and sisters and mothers — everybody, no matter how you identify, now is your chance to vote against Donald Trump, a man who believes his fame gives him the right to grab one of your daughters, or sisters or mothers or wives by any part of their body," Gaga said.
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