A former Republican ally of Donald Trump said the president “spiraled down into a kind of madness” after losing the election, and that the best option for the U.S. now is for him “to resign and go away as soon as possible.”
“It does not look as though there is the will or the consensus to exercise the 25th Amendment option. And I don’t think there’s time to do an impeachment,” Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “The best thing would be a resignation.”
Toomey said Trump, through his “outrageous behavior in the post-election period,” culminating in his role in Wednesday’s violent assault on the U.S. Capitol, isn’t a viable candidate for office “ever again.”
The president has spent the two months after his election defeat repeating unsubstantiated claims about election fraud that have been knocked down in dozens of lawsuits but have been widely adopted by his supporters and backed by some GOP lawmakers.
Trump urged his supporters to come to Washington on Jan. 6, the day Congress was due to officially seal his election defeat.
“Big protest in D.C. on January 6th,” Trump tweeted on Dec. 19, one of several of his tweets promoting the day. “Be there, will be wild!”
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WATCH: Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) tells Meet the Press, “the best thing would be a resignation” from President Trump. #MTP
@SenToomey: “The best way for our country is for the president to resign and go away as soon as possible”
3:28 PM · Jan 10, 2021
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