Washington:Calling for the impeachment of Donald Trump, the House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday said that those who attacked the Capitol last week were "domestic terrorists" and "the President of the United States incited this insurrection".
Terming Trump as a "danger to the nation", she said, "We know that the President of the United States incited this insurrection, this armed rebellion against our common country. He must go, he is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love."
Speaking during the debate on the article of impeachment of President Trump, Pelosi said, "Those insurrectionists were not patriots. They were not part of a political base to be catered to and managed. They were domestic terrorists and justice must prevail."
She further said that the insurrectionists "did not appear out of a vacuum" but "sent here, sent here by the President with words such as a cry -- to fight like hell".
"Words matter. Truth matters. Accountability matters," she continued while adding that "the President saw the insurrectionists not as foes to freedom, as they are, but as the means to a terrible goal, the goal to his personally clinging to power. The goal of thwarting the will of the people. The goal of ending in a fiery and bloody clash, nearly two and a half centuries of our democracy."