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2021 special edition
January 13, 2021
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Congress Races to Remove Trump from Office
Incitement of
insurrection
is the charge
(AP) — The U.S. House
pressed swiftly forward Tuesday
toward impeachment or other
steps to forcibly remove President
Donald Trump from office for his
role in last week’s deadly attack
on the Capitol as a joint session
of Congress met to certify Presi-
dent-Elect’s Joe Biden’s election
victory.
The president, defeated in the
Nov. 3 election, made his first
remarks to reporters on Tuesday
about the attack on the House and
Senate, showing no remorse for
his comments firing up the crowd
ahead of the deadly invasion.
The House was also trying to
convince Vice President Pence
and Cabinet members to act even
more quickly to remove Trump
from office, warning he is a threat
to democracy in the remaining
days of his presidency.
Trump faces a single charge —
“incitement of insurrection” — in
the impeachment resolution that
the House will begin debating
Wednesday, a week before Demo-
crat Joe Biden is set to be inaugu-
rated, Jan. 20.
The unprecedented events,
which could make Trump the first
U.S. president to be twice im-
peached, are unfolding in a nation
bracing for more unrest. The FBI
has warned ominously of potential
armed protests in Washington and
all 50 states by Trump loyalists
ahead of Biden’s inauguration
It all added up to stunning final
moments for Trump’s presidency
as Democrats and a growing num-
ber of Republicans declare he is
unfit for office and could do more
damage after inciting a mob that
violently ransacked the U.S. Capi-
tol last Wednesday.
A Capitol police officer died
from injuries suffered in the riot,
and police shot a woman during
the violence. Three others died in
what authorities said were medi-
cal emergencies.
Late Monday, the entire Con-
gressional Hispanic Caucus, all 34
members, unanimously agreed to
support impeachment, calling for
Trump’s immediate removal.
Republican Sen. Pat Toomey
of Pennsylvania joined GOP Sen.
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska over
the weekend in calling for Trump
to “go away as soon as possible.”
Pence has given no indication he
would proceed with invoking the
25th Amendment to remove Trump
from office and no member of the
Cabinet has publicly called for
Trump to be removed from office,
Biden said Monday he has had
Violent protesters, loyal to President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol, in Washington, D.C. on Jan.
6 as Congress began a joint session of the House and Senate to certify President-Elect Joe Biden’s
Electoral College victory last Nov. 3. (AP photo)
conversations with senators ahead
of a possible impeachment trial,
which some have worried would
cloud the opening days of his ad-
ministration.
As for the rioters, Biden said,
“It is critically important that
there’ll be a real serious focus on
holding those folks who engaged
in sedition and threatening the
lives, defacing public property,
caused great damage -- that they
be held accountable.”
House Republican leader Kevin
McCarthy, among Trump’s closest
allies in Congress, said in a letter
to colleagues that “impeachment
at this time would have the oppo-
site effect of bringing our country
together.”
The impeachment legislation
also details Trump’s pressure on
state officials in Georgia to “find”
him more votes, as well as his
White House rally ahead of the
Capitol siege, in which he encour-
aged thousands of supporters last
Wednesday to “fight like hell” and
march to the building.
The mob overpowered police,
broke through security lines and
windows and rampaged through
the Capitol, forcing lawmakers
to scatter as they were finalizing
Biden’s victory over Trump in the
Electoral College.
While some have questioned
impeaching the president so close
to the end of his term, Democrats
and others argue he must be pre-
vented from holding future public
office.
There is precedent for pursu-
ing impeachment after an official
leaves office. In 1876, during the
Ulysses Grant administration, War
Secretary William Belknap was
impeached by the House the day
he resigned, and the Senate con-
vened a trial months later. He was
acquitted.
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