Rep. Peter Meijer: Only GOP Freshman Who Voted To Impeach Trump Tells All

Just three days after being sworn into Congress to represent Michigan’s 3rd district, Republican freshman Peter Meijer found himself and colleagues trapped without security in the bowels of the Capitol building while a riot that ultimately claimed five lives raged all around him. 

The following week, he was one of just 10 Republicans—and the only first-termer—to vote to impeach Donald Trump, a decision that led to a narrowly failed censure vote from his own state’s GOP and immediate announcements that he will be primaried in 2022. 

The 33-year-old Army veteran who served in Iraq didn’t expect his first few days in Congress to be so chaotic, but he says his military tra