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LOS ANGELES (Variety.com): The United States House of Representatives mobilizes to impeach President Donald Trump on Wednesday (January 13) for inciting an insurrection, considering that he represents a threat to democracy and the United States Constitution. United.
The vote comes just a week after pro-Trump rioters attacked the Capitol building in a doomed effort to block the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election.
It also comes just one week into Trump’s term. Several Republicans said Tuesday (January 12) that they would vote in favor of the motion.
The debate on the impeachment resolution was scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. ET on Wednesday (10 p.m. in Malaysia).
The article recounts Trump’s efforts to pressure Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” enough votes to overturn Biden’s victory in that state.
He also quotes his words at a rally on the Ellipse, when he told the crowd “if you don’t fight like hell, you won’t have a country anymore.”
The crowd would go to storm the Capitol.
“In all of this, President Trump seriously jeopardized the security of the United States and its institutions of government,” the impeachment article reads.
“He threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and endangered a branch of the government on equal terms.”
The vote will make Trump the first president to be indicted twice.
He would also be the first to be impeached after leaving office, unless Democrats and Republicans can agree to act more quickly.
If the Senate finds him guilty, Trump will not be able to return to office.
Biden will be sworn in on January 20, and the Senate trial could slow efforts to confirm his cabinet nominees.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week asked Trump to resign, or for Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment, saying either option would be more efficient.
But Pence refused to invoke the amendment on Tuesday, saying it would set a “terrible precedent.”
Five people were killed in the attack, while rioters smashed offices and members of Congress fled the floor.
Pence, who was tasked with presiding over the certification, was taken to safety.
Around the same time, Trump was tweeting an attack on Pence, saying he “didn’t have the courage” to give in to pressure from Trump to reject the election result.
Trump has been unrepentant in the week since then, saying on Tuesday his comments at the “Save America Rally” near the White House were “totally appropriate.”
He also hinted that the effort to prosecute him would only lead to more violence, saying the move was “causing tremendous anger, division and pain, far more than most people will understand, which is very dangerous for the United States.” – VARIETY.COM
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