The U.S. House of Representatives is moving forward to impeach President Donald Trump as a number of Republicans break with their president following last week’s attack on the U.S. Capitol. USA with its supporters.
Starting at 9 a.m. EST (14:00 GMT) Wednesday, the House will begin debating an article on impeachment against President Trump for a revolution. If adopted, perhaps late Wednesday, it would make Trump the first president in U.S. history to be twice inducted.
A growing number of Republicans say they will join the Democrats in insulting Trump, which would force the House to vote as a horrific retaliation of Trump with just seven days left in the his turbulent leadership.
Rep. Liz Cheney, the number three Republican in charge of the House, issued a spy statement Tuesday announcing she would vote for a high-profile.
“A lot more will become clear in the coming days and weeks, but what we know now is enough,” Cheney said.
“The president of the United States summoned this mob, assembled this mob and lit the flame of this attack,” she said.
“Everything he followed was done.”
Trump had spoken to a crowd of thousands of his supporters on Jan. 6 on the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House in Washington, considering that the primary election had been stolen from him and urging them to march on the Capitol where lawyers were voting. confirm Joe Biden ‘s testimony. Hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building, and six people including two police officers lost their lives.
Armed police in the National Guard have been called in to secure the U.S. Capitol in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack amid fears of new violence from Trump supporters ahead of the founding of Joe Biden on Jan. 20. [Erin Scott/Reuters]
Cheney is chair of the House Republican Conference and the daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney. According to media reports, she told Republicans in a conference call Tuesday that they were free to vote conscientiously on impeachment.
Representative John Katko, a former federal prosecutor, said the facts about a mob attack on Congress make it clear that Trump incited the violence and that he should be fired.
“The president’s role here is incredible,” Katko said in remarks on the floor of the House on Tuesday night.
“Both on social media and on January 6 in his speech, he put forward unfounded theories deliberately creating a burning environment of misinformation and sharing,” Katko said.
Illinois Republican Adam Kinzinger, a former Air Force pilot who has criticized Trump’s false claims about an election ball, said he would vote for impeachment.
If the actions of a president “inciting deadly terrorism against” Congress “do not deserve impeachment, what is an inaccessible crime?” Kinzinger asked in a statement.
Trump used “his position” as president “to attack” the government’s legislative branch, said Kinzinger, the first Republican to publicly call for Trump to resign after Trump’s January 6 attack.
Kinzinger was the only Republican to join the Democrats in voting 223 to 205 on Tuesday night to approve a request calling for Vice President Mike Pence to replace Trump immediately under the 25th Change to the US Constitution.
Vice President Mike Pence, in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying he would not attack the 25th Amendment, called on Democrats to ‘lower the temperature and unite our country’ [Samuel Corum/Pool via AP]
Michigan Republican Fred Upton said he would vote for Trump’s impeachment after Trump claimed Tuesday that his rally comments to supporters were “absolutely appropriate” and refused to express remorse for the uprising at the Capitol. .
“Congress needs to hold President Trump to account and send a clear message that our country cannot and will not accept any attempt by any president to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from a single head. sit down to the next one, “Upton said.
In office since 1987, Upton is one of the longest-serving Republican members of the House.
In the U.S. Senate, Republican leader Mitch McConnell has so far been silent on impeachment even as some other Republicans like Senator Lindsey Graham have called it unnecessary and divided.
McConnell is said to be angry about the attack on the Capitol and to believe that Trump committed an inaccurate crime by inciting the public, according to media reports citing anonymous Republican sources.
Elaine Chao, McConnell ‘s wife, resigned as Trump’ s transport secretary following the Capitol attack. Three Republican senators have called for Trump to resign including Lisa Murkowski, Pat Toomey and Ben Sasse.
Meanwhile, McConnell did not respond to a call from Democratic leader Chuck Schumer to bring the Senate back to an emergency session to consider removing Trump from office before his term expires.
The Senate is currently in recess until Jan. 20, when Joe Biden will be installed as president.
“We could come back ASAP and vote to condemn Donald Trump, and get him out of office now before any further damage is done,” Schumer said at a news conference in New York on Tuesday .
President Biden has urged Senate leaders not to allow the impeachment issue to slow down his agenda, which includes new COVID-19 relief legislation and the confirmation of senior administration officials his new.
The Senate lawsuit in Trump’s first impeachment with the House on allegations of abuse of power for withholding U.S. military support back to Ukraine lasted two weeks, from January 21 to February 5, 2020.