Wash Heights Pols Host Neighborhood Call For Trump's Impeachment

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — Manhattan elected officials are coming together in Washington Heights on Friday for a unity and healing vigil calling for President Donald Trump's impeachment.

The vigil will take place in Bennett Park at West 183rd Street and Fort Washington Avenue.

Upper Manhattan politicians Congressman Adriano Espaillat and Assembly Member Carmen De La Rosa are hosting the event, which Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and Council Members Ydanis Rodriguez will also attend.

Join us at 6PM tomorrow for a vigil to Heal Our Nation and call for Peace & Unity.

Friday, Jan. 8th at 6PM • Bennett Park in Fort Washington #NY13 #Peace #Unity #Healing pic.twitter.com/aiIOLvY2D3
— Adriano Espaillat (@RepEspaillat) January 8, 2021

Espaillat was in the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday when Trump supporters stormed the building.

"If they were Black or Brown, they would have been slaughtered. The History of this nation," Espaillat tweeted out Wednesday. "This is unacceptable. Donald Trump is to blame."

Espaillat tweeted that he will be introducing a resolution at the vigil on Friday.

De La Rosa also spoke out against the actions at the Capitol on Wednesday, "Madness, this is the true face of white supremacy and fascism! An outright assault on our Democracy!"

Brewer described Wednesday's actions as "terror."

"We need unity and peace in this country, but there won't be unity until there are serious consequences for the spectacle and terror we as a nation witnessed on Wednesday," Brewer told Patch. "That's why I'm joining Congressmember Espaillat in his call to impeach and remove the president.

"I'm also calling on Congress to enact a disqualification on Donald Trump from running for or holding any United States office again — one of the punishments for impeachment provided in the Constitution," Brewer added.

As of Friday morning, 199 members of Congress and 38 members of the Senate are calling for Trump to be removed from office either through impeachment or the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, according to CNN.