Another historic stain on Trump

He has only 12 days left in office, but Donald Trump is on his way to making more history. Most Democrats in Congress, and even some Republicans, are now demanding the immediate removal of what they call an “unsettled president,” after inciting his supporters and calling for them to ascend the Capitol building – to which they did climb, storm and invade, in unprecedented events that killed five sons A person.

In the days following the onslaught on Congress, Democrats raised the possibility of removing Trump with the help of the 25th Amendment, which allows Vice President Mike Pence and cabinet ministers to oust Trump if for some reason he believes he is unable to serve as president. However, Pence made it clear according to various reports that he did not intend to do so, despite the rift in their relationship following the recent events: Trump demanded that he, unconstitutionally, thwart the confirmation of Joe Biden’s victory at the congressional meeting he held on Wednesday. CNN reported that after Lantern refused, Trump screamed at him in a meeting between them at the White House.

After the possibility of immediate impeachment was dropped, Democrats in the House of Representatives are now advancing an impeachment process against the president – for the second time, after already trying to oust him a year ago following the Ukraine Gate affair. If the procedure does go ahead and the removal clauses are approved in the House of Representatives, Trump will become the only president in U.S. history to have such a procedure opened twice against him. Necessary for this, there is not enough time left to complete the sentence.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made it clear to his people, according to a report in the New York Times, that even if Democrats approved the impeachment clauses against Trump in a flash, a Senate trial could not open before Jan. 20, Biden’s inauguration day. Despite this, Democrats are now rushing toward an impeachment process, primarily to convey a message that Trump’s actions should not go unpunished: another historic stain on his presidency.

House Speaker Democrat Nancy Pelosi said tonight that if Trump does not resign “immediately,” she will allow the impeachment process to be opened against him. According to a draft of the impeachment letter unveiled tonight, signed by about 170 Democratic lawmakers, Trump will be charged with “Incitement to rebellion.” The clause is expected to be filed as early as Monday. If Democrats want to expedite the process, they will have to unprecedentedly skip the lengthy hearings in the House Judiciary Committee, where the various pieces of evidence for this charge are presented.

Despite her threat tonight, according to the Times, Pelosi herself has not yet decided whether to initiate a dismissal process. According to the report, some Democrats fear that such a move would allow Trump to unite the Republican base around him, and allow him to strengthen his position in the party after the end of his term – something many U.S. commentators now find difficult to do in light of his part in the riots. In his statement last night, in which he welcomed Trump’s decision not to attend his inauguration, Biden said the issue of the impeachment process should be left to Congress, and did not express an opinion here or there on the issue.

Even among Republicans, calls are growing for Trump’s immediate removal. The harshest statement so far was made by Alaska Senator Lisa Morkowski, who said she wanted to see Trump resign, and right away. She even implicitly threatened that if the Republican Party did not know how to stay away from him, it would resign from it.

“I want him to retire, I want him out. He did enough damage,” Morkowski told a local Alaska newspaper. “He’s not going to get to the inauguration. He did not focus on what’s going on with the Corona. Either he plays golf or he gets upset in the Oval Office and throws everyone who was loyal to him under the bus wheels, and it starts with the vice president. He does not want to be there. “He wants to be there for the degree. He just wants to be there for his ego. He needs to get out. He needs to do the good thing, but I don’t think he can do anything good.”

Although Morkowski did not explicitly say whether she would support the removal, she did not seem to have any sympathy for the president. Another senator, Ben Sas of Nebraska, said he would “definitely” consider the possibility of dismissal, as he said Trump “looted” his job.

CNN reported this morning that other Republican officials are considering supporting the impeachment process. “We have experienced the attack,” one lawmaker told the news network anonymously, referring to Trump supporters’ onslaught on the Capitol building. “We do not need lengthy hearings on what happened,” he added. Another Republican lawmaker said, “He sent a mob to the Capitol, where we were busy with our constitutional duty to count the electorate and declare his election loss.”

Trump himself, according to the New York Times, made it clear to his associates that they were still left in the White House after the wave of resignations there, that he had no intention of resigning. According to the same report, the president also expressed remorse for posting under pressure from his advisers the same video on Twitter on the night between Thursday and Friday, a full day after the riots, in which he condemned the rioters and recognized for the first time that his rule was coming to an end. In the video, Trump claimed that his “focus” now is on a smooth and orderly transfer of power, although he did not explicitly mention Biden’s name, and as mentioned later announced that he would not attend his swearing-in ceremony (even in this announcement he did not explicitly mention Biden’s name).

Trump reportedly released that video, in which he read a text from a teleprompter in a rather monotonous tone, under pressure from his advisers and family members. He was warned that he might be at legal risk, in the shadow of the Washington District Attorney’s statement that Trump’s enthusiastic speech to his supporters, in a demonstration that preceded the riots, could also be examined in the criminal investigation that followed.

In these riots, five people were killed, one of them a policeman who died of his wounds after confronting the protesters. Following the death of Officer Brian Sicknik, the flag in the Capitol building was lowered to half-mast – but in the US the fact that this was not done in parallel in the White House is emphasized.

Trump, it should be noted, has so far not publicly addressed calls for his removal, but a White House spokesman said: “Opening a removal process against President Donald Trump with 12 days left in his presidency will only contribute to another split in our country.” And what do the citizens think? According to a poll published tonight by the Reuters news agency, 57% of Americans support Trump’s immediate removal.