In the US, calls continue to grow for Donald Trump’s immediate removal from the White House, following his alleged role in the riots of his supporters on Capitol Hill, but there are also reports of Democrats’ fears that a dismissal against Trump will hurt his successor, Joe Biden. The policies important to him in his early days as president.


Biden and Trump. A dismissal trial for a former president?
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Capitol riots: coverage in the Ynet studio
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CNN reported tonight (Sunday) that Biden’s advisers are working behind the scenes with House Speaker Democrat Nancy Pelosi to find a way to prevent scandals involving Trump in Biden’s first 100 days in office. Biden has promised to focus these days. Mainly in the fight against the corona virus, during which 100 million vaccines are distributed to Americans.
Biden has refrained from publicly stating his position on the issue of ousting Trump, although he is reportedly not enthusiastic about it. He has publicly stated that it is the role of Congress to decide this question. Now, however, it is clear that the Democrats will start a dismissal process in the House of Representatives, where they have a majority that will allow it. About 200 Democratic lawmakers have already signed the proposed impeachment clause against Trump, “incitement to rebellion,” which will be submitted to the House of Representatives for approval tomorrow. “The train has left the flushing station,” a source close to Baiden told CNN. “An attempt to stop her will fail, and will only hurt Biden’s relationship with the Progressives and with most of the Democrats in the party.”
Under the dismissal procedure defined in the Constitution, the approval of the indictment clause in the House of Representatives passes the procedure to the Senate, where a “trial” is held for the president where a two-thirds majority conviction is required to bring about an actual removal. But a possibility the Democrats are now raising is to wait with the indictment being passed to the Senate until after Biden’s first 100 days, and only then open the Senate trial – that is, after Trump has already left office. Various U.S. lawyers have suggested that this may be possible, even though in practice it no longer means “dismissal” – although in the event of a conviction it may be possible, by further vote, to prevent Trump from running for public office in the future, or impose other restrictions such as pension denial and additional benefits. To which former presidents are entitled.Plusi told CBS today that these restrictions are a motivation for supporters of the impeachment process.
The motion to delay the trial in the Senate was raised today by Legislature Jim Claiborne, a close ally of Biden and the No. 3 Democrat in the House of Representatives. “Let President-elect Biden be given the 100 days he needs to start his agenda,” Claiborne said. “And maybe we’ll send the (of the indictment) sections some time later.”
It should be noted that according to the procedures in the Senate, as long as a dismissal trial is held the senators can only proceed in it, and not in legislation or other matters. Thus, such a sentence at the beginning of Biden’s presidency could impair his ability to quickly approve his cabinet ministers or pass on additional financial aid to Americans affected by the Corona crisis – as he promised to do. According to CNN Biden is expected to unveil such an aid plan later this week and ask Congress to approve it as soon as possible.
While on the Democratic side it is clear that the impeachment process has wall-to-wall support, the Republican side is also calling for Trump’s immediate removal from the White House, even though so far only one Republican lawmaker has made it clear he will support the impeachment. The critical vote was joined today by Republican Sen. Pat Tommy of Pennsylvania, who called on Trump to resign immediately. “I think the best way for our country is for Trump to resign and disappear as soon as possible,” Tommy said in an interview with NBC. He called Trump’s conduct “shocking,” noting that in his opinion the president could be held criminally responsible following his speech before his supporters’ demonstration in Washington and his various tweets at the time, in which he incited and incited his supporters against lawmakers who confirmed his election loss.
Tommy did not explicitly say whether he would support the dismissal. He noted that there was not enough time to complete such a procedure, but added that Trump’s actions could indeed justify dismissal – an unprecedented move that had never happened in the U.S. Tommy now joins Sen. Ben Sas of Nebraska who said he would consider support for dismissal and Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who also read She wants Trump to resign immediately. “I want him to resign, I want him out,” she said over the weekend. “He did enough damage.”
The vast majority of Republicans in Congress do not express support for the impeachment – with the main argument they are making now being to focus on unity and avoid steps that will increase the flames of tension – but real defense of Trump’s actions is very difficult to find. “Democrats want to talk about ridiculous things like ‘let’s oust a president,’ who is not going to stay in office in nine days,” said Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. The same single lawmaker who said he would vote “immediately” in favor of dismissal, Illinois House of Representatives Adam Kinsinger, made it clear he thought it was an “unwise move” because it would allow Trump to present himself as a “victim.”
Trump’s ally, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, was also sharply criticized, saying Trump’s actions warranted his removal. “What we had was incitement to riot in the U.S. Capitol. “People have died, and I don’t think there is a question here,” Christie said in an interview with ABC. “If incitement to rebellion does not justify dismissal, I do not know what is,” he added. He criticized the Democrats, saying their previous attempt to oust Trump following the Ukraine-Gate affair For about a year, he “reduced” the dismissal procedure.
Another criticism from a senior Republican came today from former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has previously confronted the outgoing president several times. In a lengthy video he posted on Twitter, Schwarzenegger likened the riots on Capitol Hill to the events of Kristallnacht in Germany in 1938, calling the riots “a day of broken glass here in America.” “The crowd not only broke the windows of the Capitol, but the ideas we take for granted. They not only broke the doors of the building that hosts American democracy, but trampled on the principles on which our country was founded.”
Schwarzenegger, who was born in Austria in 1947, revealed that as a child his father, who he said was consumed with guilt over the atrocities of the Nazi era, used to get drunk and beat his mother. “President Trump tried to turn election results, fair elections,” he added, “he wanted to carry out a coup with the help of lies that people misled. My father and his neighbors were also deceived with lies.”
At the end of his video, Schwarzenegger presented the character’s sword from his film “The Barbarian Conan,” saying that just as the sword blade is strengthened in the annealing process, so too will American democracy be strengthened in the wake of the blow it has now suffered. “I believe that despite the upheaval we have experienced in the events of recent days, we will come out stronger, because we now understand what we may lose.”
Meanwhile, the United States continues to engage extensively in the riots themselves and in the hunt for the rioters many of whom, perhaps most, have yet to be arrested. Tonight, it was reported that two Virginia police officers were taken on forced leave following their participation in the riots, and two police officers from Seattle were also released on Friday, and authorities there are examining whether they also took part in the riots, leaving five dead.
One of the dead is police officer Brian Siknik, who died of his wounds a day after the confrontation with the protesters. On social media, several photos were circulated today that surfers claimed to show protesters dragging a picnic and beating him, but it is not at all clear whether this is indeed this policeman. Either way, these are harsh scenes of violence, and the U.S. emphasizes that as time goes on it becomes clear how violent the riot was, and that it seems the death toll from it could have been much higher as well.
Trump, by the way, has not yet commented on the officer’s death. Only tonight was the U.S. flag lowered in the White House to the half-mast, two days after it had already been done in the Capitol building. Tonight a procession was held in Washington in memory of Sicknik.