Ted Lieu: Impeachment Manager and Reservist Has Tweets Trained on Trump

WASHINGTON — During the lengthy hours of chaos on Jan. 6 as a violent pro-Trump mob took over the Capitol, Representative Ted Lieu, who was sheltering contained in the constructing, started drafting an article of impeachment in opposition to President Trump.

“Insurrectionists incited by Mr. Trump attacked our nation’s Capitol to stop Congress from accepting the Electoral College results,” he later informed The New York Times.

Mr. Lieu sponsored the article of impeachment with Representatives David Cicilline of Rhode Island and Jamie Raskin of Maryland, two fellow Democrats. Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California then selected him to function an impeachment supervisor within the second impeachment case in opposition to Mr. Trump.

First elected to Congress in 2014 to signify the rich suburbs west of Los Angeles, Mr. Lieu has develop into recognized for his sharp criticism of Mr. Trump on his personal Twitter account, which has made him well-liked amongst Democrats on-line. His tweets usually rack up hundreds of interactions.

“We must impeach Trump,” Mr. Lieu wrote hours after the assault on the Capitol. He added that to not achieve this would imply Congress had “failed our country.”

Mr. Lieu was 3 years outdated when his household immigrated to the United States from Taiwan, the place he was born. He has described his household being the goal of racism whereas he was rising up in a largely white group in Cleveland. But Mr. Lieu cites the perseverance of his dad and mom, who didn’t communicate English and struggled to make ends meet once they arrived within the United States, as an inspiration. His dad and mom finally grew to become the homeowners of a spread of reward outlets, the place Mr. Lieu and his brother would work.

In Congress, Mr. Lieu serves on the House Judiciary and Foreign Affairs Committees.

He studied laptop science and political science at Stanford University and later graduated from Georgetown University with a legislation diploma and was the editor in chief of its legislation evaluate. He joined the Air Force as a part of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, which oversees the administration of justice and ethics. Mr. Lieu remains to be a member of the Air Force Reserve.

He beforehand served as an environmental high quality commissioner and on the City Council in Torrance, Calif., earlier than being elected to the California State Assembly in 2005 and the State Senate in 2011.