A heckler at the main Michigan primary watch party for former President Donald Trump was shut down by a Republican lawmaker who quickly delivered this hot take: "Jan. 6th was bad."
Former Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI), now running for the U.S. Senate, issued this decree during a Trump watch party in Grand Rapids, Michigan on election night Tuesday, reports NBC.
While in mid-sentence a crowd member blurted out: "You impeached Trump!" Meijer responded with a comeback, according to NBC News' Sarah Dean.
"I did, because Jan. 6th was bad," he reportedly said. "And you know what? I think we would’ve had better victories in November of ’22 had we not [gone down] that path."
Meijer, a Columbia University alum who also toured in Afghanistan voted in favor of Trump's impeachment in 2019 and 2021.
After Jan. 6, 2021, he said: "The one man who could have restored order, prevented the deaths of five Americans including a Capitol police officer, and avoided the desecration of our Capitol, shrank from leadership when our country needed it most."
Dean reported that when the same man attempted to interrupt again, Meijer tried to explain that different opinions should not stop Republicans from unifying behind the Republican nominee and against Democrats.
"We cannot let them be the victors in this civil war," he said.
