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Ten Republicans joined Democrats when an angry House indicted the President of the United States, Donald Trump, at 4:25 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) yesterday in the United States.
The United States House of Representatives was tense on Wednesday, January 13, with spirits raging as the impeachment vote debate saw temperatures rise on both sides. In an impeachment showdown, both sides threw out loud words. But ultimately, the Democrats won, their margin bolstered by 10 Republicans who were clearly fed up with Donald Trump.
Ten Republicans joined Democrats when an angry House indicted the President of the United States, Donald Trump, at 4:25 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) yesterday in the United States.
Bewildered representatives and Capitol personnel arrived at work to find hundreds of National Guard soldiers filling the Capitol buildings, some still asleep in the hallways; They had arrived Tuesday night as part of the inauguration security measures.
Tightened security measures at the state Capitol will no doubt echo across the country as all 50 states are forced to tighten security in anticipation of more pro-Trump violent uprisings ahead of President-elect Joe’s inauguration. Biden on January 20. Wednesday.
This is the first time in US history that a president has been indicted twice. If Trump hadn’t been assured an ignominious place in the history books after the terrible riot at the National Capitol exactly a week ago on Wednesday, January 6, his place is now forever on the wall of shame.
Following a Trump speech, the mob rampaged through the Capitol complex last Wednesday, leaving five people dead in its wake, including a Capitol Police Officer, Brian Sicknik, who had been dragged into the mob and beaten so severely that he later died from his injuries. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, said the day after the riots: “You will have to resign or we will impeach you.”
Speaking on Capitol Hill, amid growing calls for Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment, which allows the vice president and a majority of the cabinet to declare a president unfit for office, and remove Trump from office, Pelosi said that “The president of the United States incited an armed insurrection against the United States … Any day can be a spectacle of terror for the United States.”
During impeachment proceedings in the House on Wednesday, the president called Trump a “clear and present danger to the nation.”
The final vote was 232 in favor, 197 against, and four representatives did not vote. The matter now goes to the Senate, where it will be decided whether Trump should be convicted and removed from office.
(In short, “the Senate functions as a Superior Court of Indictment in which senators consider evidence, hear witnesses, and vote to acquit or convict the accused official.” See rules on impeachment here.)
While some quarters have expressed surprise that 10 Republicans voted in favor of impeachment, some high-level American political experts suggest that those Republicans are not supporting impeachment because it incited an insurrection, but because the insurrection failed. .
– The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 13, 2021
The vote itself was the most bipartisan impeachment vote in American history, even more than voting against President Andrew Johnson in 1868.
Trump himself, in the middle of the impeachment process, sent a statement through the White House in which he said, “I urge that there must be NO violence, NO law breaking, and NO vandalism of any kind … I call on ALL Americans to help ease tensions and defuse spirits.”
By then, his fate was already sealed. DM
An Wentzel is a nighttime editor and specialist reporter for the US-based Daily Maverick.
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