Thread by @GeoffWSYX6

#NOW: Ohio @SenSherrodBrown is forcefully denouncing @realDonaldTrump and congressional Republicans for the Capitol insurrection this week. Follow along for details...

Brown: “The President incited the attack...(and) must not be allowed to do any more damage, even for the next 12 days.”

Brown: “This summer, peaceful Black protesters were met outside the @WhiteHouse with tear gas, rubber bullets...while this week, white supremacists” faced little or none of that.

Brown: “Do we call for (certain Republican House member/senators) expulsion? It’s clear they plays to this crowd...it’s almost an ominous silence by the President’s party when the President engaged in racist comments and actions.”

Brown: if not the 25th amendment, “I think we should consider impeachment.”

Brown: “I saw some officers taking selfies with rioters...from the top, the leadership in the @CapitolPolice wasn’t ready for...this insurrection.

It was the Defense Dept. and the @WhiteHouse, we hear, that apparently discouraged a stronger use of force at the Capitol.”

Brown: “The @CapitolPolice, the Defense Department, the @NationalGuard and the military police need to be ready” for Inauguration Day on January 20th.

Brown uses this opportunity to say Congress needs to head off these angry events, by working on income inequality, job growth — “It’s a plea to my colleagues to stand up on issues of moral importance, and those are always about race and they’re always about income inequality.”

Brown: “If this were a Black Lives Matter event, there would have been many, many more arrests — there would have been many more people that died.”

Says the “cheering on” by Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump, Jr. “tells us there’s something about our society we need to fix.”

Ohio @SenSherrodBrown: “I’ve called for the 25th amendment; the more members of the House/Senate do that, perhaps the @VP & cabinet members will meet & make a decision. I don’t lobby cabinet members.

It would be better for the country; it would look less partisan and divided.”

Brown: “Senator @tedcruz, who has blood on his hands, said some percentage of the people still think the election is rigged...we still have to listen to this, *because* people like Ted Cruz continue to say there was fraud — when there wasn’t.”

Brown: “I didn’t like the second George Bush at all...as President, he lied about the Iraq War. But I never would have dreamed of getting in front of cameras and reporters and saying we should invoke the 25th amendment...but this is something we’ve never seen.”

Brown: “@realDonaldTrump, I’m not surprised he wouldn’t show up (to the inauguration). He should show up...but this President who incited a riot is not going to show up to the inauguration, and I’m not surprised at all.”

Brown on impeachment timeline: “It should be done sooner (than next week)...give @VP & cabinet a chance to move forward, but draft articles of impeachment now.”

Says in the 4.5 hours senators were locked in a room together Wed., impeachment wasn’t discussed among GOP members.

Brown: “When the 75 of us were locked in that room...we had discussions on what’s going to happen to our country, how are we going to fix this.

We need Republican senators to stand up and help...by speaking out.”

Brown on Capitol security: “To remove @CapitolPolice leadership is right...we need better police training, as we need for what’s happened w/ killing of innocent Black men around the country...January 20th: @DCPoliceDept, National Guard & military police all need to be engaged.”

As @SenSherrodBrown speaks with reporters, bi-partisan announcement comes down from Washington, D.C.👇

https://twitter.com/geoffwsyx6/status/1347576805528662016

I’ve had to duck out for another interview.