The U.S. House of Representatives was officially arrested Wednesday to accuse Donald Trump of inciting a revolt against the U.S. government in the wake of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, a remarkable and historic step that would make him the only American president ever to be twice inducted.
The unprecedented effort gained momentum as Republican leaders in the House joined Democrats calling for him to be sacked for his ouster. a mass of loyalists who led the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol while members of Congress were in the House and Senate were in a session to test Joe Biden’s influence on Trump in the November primary election.
Trump expressed remorse for his inflammatory language at a rally just before the mob marched on U.S. Congress and broke into last week “absolutely appropriate”.
He said impeachment was nothing more than “a continuation of the greatest witch hunt in the history of politics”.
On Tuesday, Mike Pence formally rejected calls for Trump to seize power in an unprecedented attack of the 25th U.S. constitution that will allow a president to resign if deemed inappropriate for to fulfill his role.
Pence’s signal came just hours before the house passed a resolution calling for him to do so.
In lengthy documents outlining the case for impeachment, House Democrats argued Trump’s lack of remorse was further proof that he remained a threat while in office.
“The remaining term of the president is limited – but a president capable of carrying out a violent revolution in the Capitol is at even greater risk,” he wrote. removed as soon as the constitution allows. “
Fear turned to skinning in the days since the riots, as lawyers learned more about the security failures that brought death and destruction to the House of Commons.
“The president of the United States called this mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack,” Liz Cheney, a Republican House No. 3, said in a sarcastic statement Tuesday night announcing her support for impeachment. “Everything he continued to do was. None of this would have happened without the president. “
No House Republican voted to support when Trump was introduced in 2019 over his efforts to persuade the Ukrainian leader to examine Joe Biden’s family, then the his election candidate, now his new successor in the White House.
Several other House Republicans joined Cheney, including Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who questioned whether the president’s actions were “not worthy of impeachment, then what is an inaccessible crime?”
His support marks a major shift from last year’s proceedings, when a Republican fought back against Trump’s impeachment and was found free in his Senate trial in early 2020 by just one GOP Senator, Mitt Romney, joins Democrats in voting for his conviction.
The second rapid and historic impeachment vote comes just a week after the unrest in Washington DC – the first U.S. Capitol occupation since British buildings burned down during the war in 1812 – and a week before Trump has to resign.
The formal prosecution, or the impeachment article, was drafted even when lawyers blacked under chairs and prayed for safety at the time of the attack.
He accuses Trump of “inciting violence against the United States government” by inciting his supporters to march on the Capitol and preventing lawyers from formalizing Joe Biden’s election victory, in an effort to reverse the outcome and give Trump a second term in office. .
“If you don’t fight like hell, you will have no more country,” he told the brutal crowd at a gathering last Wednesday morning near the White House.
Reaching behind what they believed was a battle cry from an American president who refused to accept his election case, thousands of loyalists plunged the Capitol into a threatening violent rampage the lives of lawyers, Congressional staff, journalists and his own vice president, who was there to fulfill his constitutional duty to count and verify electoral college votes.
“All of this has put President Trump at risk of the security of the United States and its government institutions,” the article states. “It threatened the integrity of the democratic system, hindered the peaceful movement of power, and hindered the coequal branch of government. So he betrayed trust as president, the obvious injury of the people of the United States. “
As soon as the House votes to impeach the president, a result that is largely certain of the fact that Democrats retain a majority in the House, the Senate, which is currently under control, would Republicans, then hold a lawsuit. Two-thirds of the 100-member group must condemn a president, meaning 17 Republicans would have to join Democrats to convict Trump of “heinous crimes and misconduct.”
Two Republicans in the Senate have already called for Trump to resign, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell believed the president had committed inaccessible crimes.
A Senate lawsuit appears to have surfaced, at least in part, until after Trump resigned.
While Trump would not be ousted, the lawsuit would not be entirely symbolic. A convicted president can be barred from re-holding public office, a punishment that only requires a simple majority.