GOP Gov. Larry Hogan Urges Party to Leave 'Cult of Donald Trump,' Hails Conviction Votes [View all]
Maryland's Governor Larry Hogan, a Republican, suggested on Sunday that he would have voted to convict former President Donald Trump if he had been serving as a juror in the Senate, while also urging the GOP to leave the "cult" of the former commander in chief.
Hogan has frequently criticized and clashed with Trump. The Maryland governor called on Trump to resign or be removed from office following the violent insurrection by the then president's supporters against the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Although Trump was impeached a week later by the House of Representatives, he remained in the White House until the end of his term on January 20. The Senate on Saturday voted to acquit Trump, but seven Republicans voted with all 50 members of the Democratic Caucus to convict.
"I'm not in the Senate, but, you know, I think I probably would have voted with, with some of my colleagues that were on the, on the losing side, so there were—I was very proud of some of the folks who stood up and did the right thing. It's not always easy," Hogan said during a Sunday interview with NBC News' Meet the Press.
The Republican governor described Trump and his movement as "a hostile takeover" of the GOP. Hogan said that Republicans should work to remove Trump from their party and focus on the party's core values.
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It's a takeover many in the GOP supported willingly when they saw the adulation Trump got from his rabid base.