GOP lawmaker 'strongly considering' impeachment: Trump is 'no longer qualified to hold that office'

 Michigan GOP Rep. Peter Meijer stated Monday nighttime he is "strongly considering" balloting to question President Donald Trump following final week's rise up on the US Capitol, assessing that the President is "not certified to maintain that office."

"I might select that we've got a greater fulsome research into what happened. Most of what I understand approximately January 6 got here both from private enjoy or from Twitter. But on the stop of the day, I suppose its miles apparent that the President is not certified to maintain that office," Meijer instructed CNN's Erin Burnett on "Out Front."

Pressed on whether or not he'd made a definitive selection on impeachment, Meijer maintained that he will "wait to look the extra proof presented, however again that is something we are strongly considering."

His pointed remarks got here the equal day Democrats formally added their impeachment decision, charging Trump with "incitement of insurrection" as they race closer to making him the primary president in records to be impeached twice. The chamber will vote at the decision Wednesday.

While a few GOP lawmakers have known as on Trump to resign -- appreciably Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania -- Meijer's public role is a awesome damage from the bulk of House Republicans who're urging Democrats now no longer to pursue impeachment, arguing this sort of pass might be divisive.

Instead, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, in a letter to GOP colleagues, indexed 4 capability responses to the January 6 attack. McCarthy, bringing up remarks from members, floated the opportunity of "a decision of censure beneath Neath the guidelines of the House," in addition to a bipartisan fee to analyze riots, consistent with the letter. He did now no longer specify who might be censured.

But Meijer -- who changed Justin Amash, the Republican-turned-impartial former congressman who supported Trump's first impeachment -- stated Monday Trump's reaction to the Capitol breach amounted to an "abject failure of leadership" and that even as a few colleagues have informed him they're involved approximately the timing of the impeachment process, he hasn't heard anyone "arguing the merits."

Drawing on his private enjoy as an Iraq conflict veteran, Meijer delivered that he's "deeply" involved approximately greater violence with inside the coming weeks because the u . s . a . grapples with "a vacuum of leadership."

"Right now we simply have silence. That's pretty worrisome," he stated. "I'm very involved approximately the violence now no longer most effective it is passed off already which become horrific, it can were some distance worse, however additionally I cross ahead with the expectancy there can be greater violence."