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A majority in the House of Representatives, including a handful of Republicans, voted tonight for President Donald Trump to stand trial in the wake of last week’s attack on Congress in Washington, DC.
As Vice President Mike Pence has made it very clear that he does not want to do what the Democrats want, use the 25th constitutional amendment to have Trump deposed, the House of Representatives today voted whether Trump should be tried.
That question received a majority.
The only tension was how many Republicans would they vote for. Before voting began, seven had publicly said they would. In the end, three others did too. All Democrats voted in favor.
The actual voting started a few minutes before 10 p.m. About half an hour later, it was decided, when it became clear that at least half of the elected representatives in the House of Representatives had voted for the Supreme Court.
The vote ended with 232 votes in favor of the Supreme Court and 197 against.
Although there are 435 seats in the House of Representatives, only 429 voted on Wednesday. Two seats have yet to be filled since the November elections. Also, there are four Republicans who have not voted, according to the New York Times.
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Pelosi: – It is a clear danger
Just after 6:30 p.m., the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, began the two-hour debate before the vote to prosecute Donald Trump for inciting the uprising in Congress a week ago.
Pelosi thinks there is no question.
– He has to go. It is a clear danger to this country that we all love. We must make sure the republic is safe from this man who wants to break what we all hold dear, Pelosi said.
DEMOCRATIC: Nancy Pelosi spoke in the House of Representatives Photo: HOUSE OF UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVES BROCHURE / HOUSE OF UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVES
She called the attackers “terrorists” not “patriots.”
– But they didn’t come alone. They were sent here by the president, with words like “fight like hell.”
Republicans: – Trump is responsible
Jim Jordan was the first Republican to speak at the debate. He started not by defending Trump, but by reading a boastful list of what Trump has accomplished during his presidency, as well as attacking Democrats accusing them of being obsessed with getting him fired since Donald Trump’s inauguration. The White House.
REPUBLICANS: Jim Jordan spoke in the House of Representatives Photo: HOUSE OF UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVES BROCHURE / HOUSE OF UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVES
“This in no way will help the nation deal with the tragic and terrible events, which everyone will condemn last week,” Jordan continued.
House Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy believes it would be a mistake to take Trump to trial, because it will further divide the country. Still drowning in Trump’s rhetoric before last week’s chaos in Congress:
– The president is responsible for the attack on Congress by a mob of rebels.
IN CONGRESS: Soldiers from the National Guard have taken over Congress. Here some of them rest. More than 20,000 of them will be in Washington, DC in the next few days. Photo: SAUL LOEB / AFP
These are the charges
In the proposal that was already presented on Monday, the president is accused of inciting a revolt in connection with the attack on Congress exactly a week ago.
Democrats refer to:
- Trump’s repeated false claims that he won the presidential election.
- Trump’s speech on January 6, before his supporters stormed Congress.
- Trump’s phone call to the Georgia state election official to find enough votes to turn the tide in Trump’s favor.
Donald Trump is only the third president to be tried and the first in history to experience it twice.
The first time was a little over a year ago. He was later acquitted, as only one Republican in the Senate voted to convict him. A verdict requires a 2/3 majority in the Senate, where the case takes place.
McConnell did not decide
It is not known if there may be a majority this time to try Donald Trump in the Supreme Court case, but it is worth noting that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday night that you have not decided why you will vote.
“While the press has been full of speculation, I have not decided how I want to vote and I intend to listen to the legal arguments when they go before the Senate,” McConnell wrote in a letter to his Republican colleagues in the Senate.
Up to 17 Republicans, and all Democrats, must vote to convict Trump in a Supreme Court case for the president to be convicted.
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The Senate will not meet again until January 19, the day before Donald Trump resigned.
Democrats wanted a federal court to start before this, but a McConnell spokesperson will deny it Wednesday night, who has the power to call senators early.
Therefore, a Supreme Court case will not take place until after Joe Biden has assumed the presidency on January 20.
Does not take self-criticism
Donald Trump on Tuesday refused to criticize himself for his rhetoric and actions before his supporters stormed Congress.
“They have been analyzed and everyone has thought that what I said was completely appropriate,” said Donald Trump, who called the ongoing lawsuit “completely ridiculous.”
“This is a continuation of the greatest witch hunt in the history of politics,” Trump said of Democrats’ plans to put him on trial a second time.
-It is very dangerous and generates violent anger, continued the president.
Today, he issued a statement calling on all Americans to refrain from violence, and calling on everyone to help calm the mood. Trump says he is against all forms of violence.
“After there are reports of various demonstrations, I ask for NO violence, NO crime or NO vandalism,” Trump wrote in the statement.
Here’s how a Supreme Court case works:
