Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz is preparing to introduce a resolution this week stating that former President Donald Trump “did not engage in insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”
The resolution has 60 cosponsors.
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Gaetz has been soliciting support from fellow Republican lawmakers, sending an email to GOP colleagues more than two weeks ago, according to The Daily Mail.
“You are receiving this email because your boss endorsed President Trump, and we would love to have your support as an original cosponsor before we send the resolution and the list of sponsors to the former President,” read an email from Gaetz’s staff, obtained by the outlet.
Gaetz will hold a press conference with 25 other Republicans on Tuesday to announce the resolution, a mostly symbolic show of support for Trump given that it has no chance of passing in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
“The coalition of Republicans … seeks to clarify the stance of the House of Representatives be that President Trump did not participate in actions that would bar him from again holding public office,” Gaetz’s office said in a statement. “The resolution directly states that ‘President Donald J. Trump did not engage in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or give aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.'”
Gaetz has timed the resolution to coincide with the Supreme Court’s hearing of oral arguments about the legality of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove Trump from the state’s primary ballot over the insurrectionist clause in the 14th Amendment; that’s on Thursday.
Rep. Matt Gaetz is gathering support for a House resolution that says former President Donald Trump did not engage in an insurrection in the 2021 Capitol riot, an official act of Congress that would potentially influence the Supreme Court's ruling on… https://t.co/7cDq8kZcf6
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