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American Democrats are pushing for a new impeachment against the outgoing president.
US President Donald Trump is under increasing pressure. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has now demanded criminal consequences for the president-elect of the United States. The reason for this is the recent storm on Capitol Hill in Washington by Trump supporters. “Unfortunately, the executive is a worried, confused and dangerous president of the United States,” the top Democrat said in an excerpt from a CBS interview that aired Sunday. It will only be a few days before the country is safe from Trump, Pelosi said. “But he did something so serious that he should be prosecuted.”
The Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives demanded the immediate resignation of Trump and threatened a new impeachment procedure against the outgoing president. The Republican’s term ends with the swearing-in of Democrat Joe Biden on January 20. But Pelosi and other Democrats argue that every day that Trump remains in the White House is a danger. Democratic congressmen have prepared a draft resolution for the impeachment process against Trump for “inciting riots.”
Prevention of a new candidacy?
The procedure will be decided in the United States Senate. That it can be concluded there before Biden is sworn in as the new president of the United States is practically impossible. Democrats in Congress are likely to pursue a different goal with the process: If Trump is found guilty in the Senate even after leaving office, he could be barred from holding federal public office. This would prevent him from running again in the 2024 presidential election.
As president, Trump enjoys immunity from prosecution. This immunity ends with his mandate. The US media reported that after the November 3 election, Trump had several discussions with advisers about forgiving himself.
The auto pardon of a president of the United States would be a first. It is controversial whether such a step would be legally permissible. The Constitution of the United States does not specifically exclude self-pardon. Trump himself has proven to be convinced in the past that self-pardon would be permissible. During the FBI investigation into Russia in June 2018, Trump wrote on Twitter: “As numerous jurists have said, I have an absolute right to forgive myself, but why should I do this if I have done nothing wrong?”
Twitter bans the president
At the same time, Trump suffered a defeat on another front on Saturday. He was permanently banned from Twitter, one of his most important communication platforms. As a motive, Twitter cited the “risk of further incitement to violence” following the storm on Capitol Hill in Washington by Trump supporters.
The outgoing president was angry and raised serious accusations against Twitter. A message from Trump that circulated through reporters at the White House read: “Twitter agents have colluded with Democrats and the radical left to remove my account from their platform in order to silence me.”
WHAT / DPA
(“Die Presse”, print edition, January 10, 2021)
