House Democrats have set up a vote on their Article of Impeachment against President Donald Trump for Wednesday. On Tuesday the House will vote on a bill formally calling on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump from office. But even though he has received death threats from Trump supporters Mr. Pence has signaled he will remain loyal to Trump and will refuse to invoke the 25th. But support for Trump among Republicans appears to be eroding as at least one GOP Congressman, Rep. Peter Meijer of Michigan said he would consider voting to impeach. Tom Reed of New York opined that although he does not support impeachment, he thinks the President should be censured. Rank and file Republican voters are demanding Trump’s immediate removal, taking to social media to post videos of themselves denouncing his actions. Trump unsurprisingly dug his heels in over his remarks to tens of thousands of supporters last Wednesday just before a faction of them went on a violent rampage of the Capitol building. In remarks to reporters he asserted that his speech was “totally appropriate.” Pivoting to anti-immigrant hatred, as he has often done to deflect attention from his misdeeds, Trump headed to Texas after days of remaining at the White House. He plans to boast about his border wall.

The Washington Post on Tuesday published a timeline of the 6 hour-riot during which President Trump did nothing to call of his supporters attacking the Capitol, even as House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy and his own adviser Kellyanne Conway vainly tried to reach him by phone. According to the Post, “as senators and House members trapped inside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday begged for immediate help during the siege, they struggled to get through to the president, who — safely ensconced in the West Wing — was too busy watching fiery TV images of the crisis unfolding around them to act or even bother to hear their pleas.” In an interview, Senator Lindsey Graham, who also desperately tried to reach the White House, said, “The president saw these people as allies in his journey and sympathetic to the idea that the election was stolen.” Graham has been one of Trump’s most ardent loyalists and enablers. Axios reported that in a private phone call between Trump and McCarthy, the President is now insisting that the rioters were leftwing “Antifa.”

House Democrats are also considering a measure to remove those of their Republican colleagues who voted to overturn the election.