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U.S. lawmaker draws up impeachment papers on Trump after mobs storm Capitol

Published 01/06/2021, 05:57 PM
Updated 01/06/2021, 11:55 PM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: 2020 U.S. elections in Minnesota

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: 2020 U.S. elections in Minnesota

By Andrea Shalal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Democratic congresswoman on Wednesday said she was drawing up articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump after mobs broke into the U.S. Capitol https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election/its-insurrection-biden-says-as-trump-supporters-storm-u-s-capitol-idUSKBN29B2PU following Trump's urgings to his supporters to fight to undo his election loss.

"We can’t allow him to remain in office, it’s a matter of preserving our Republic and we need to fulfill our oath," U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota wrote on Twitter even though there are just two weeks left before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, another Democratic lawmaker and member of the liberal "Squad" often targeted by the Republican Trump, echoed Omar's call in a one-word tweet: "Impeach."

Hundreds of protesters marched from a Trump rally near the White House to the Capitol and stormed the building. Video showed people breaking windows and pressing past barricades to get inside. Lawmakers from the Senate and the House of Representatives were evacuated as they met to confirm Biden's victory in the Nov. 3 election.

Calls for Trump's removal spread rapidly across social media from Democratic lawmakers, commentators and some of Trump's fellow Republicans, including Vermont Governor Phil Scott.

"The fabric of our democracy and the principles of our republic are under attack by the President. Enough is enough. President Trump should resign or be removed from office by his Cabinet, or by the Congress," Scott said in a tweet.

Representative David Cicilline, a Democrat, said Congress should "impeach and convict" Trump on Thursday. "This is outrageous and the president caused it."

"Inciting a coup has to warrant impeachment," NAACP Chairman Leon Russell wrote on Twitter. Russell and others said Trump's cabinet should initiate the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which transfers power to the vice president if the president becomes unable to do his job.

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should lead a delegation of Republican leaders to the White House "to tell Trump that he has to resign immediately - or they will join with Democrats and impeach him."

Some Republican lawmakers had been attempting a last-ditch effort to challenge the election results when the Capitol was breached, encouraged by Trump and his unfounded claims of voter fraud.

Trump's former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci told Reuters via text: "Donald Trump and elected officials need to be impeached and removed from office. They have damaged our standing in the international community and are now threatening our way of life."

A senior congressional source said Democrats could issue a quick one-count bill of impeachment against Trump for inciting or encouraging rioting and proceed with a vote, but the move would likely flounder in the Republican-controlled Senate.

The Senate acquitted Trump in February 2020 after an impeachment trial led by the Democratic-controlled House on charges of trying to pressure Ukraine to investigate Biden and his son Hunter Biden.

Latest comments

but where is the impeachment for biden on hunter Jim and joe's china and other dealings!
Unfortunately Moscow Mitch won't do his job again...
Trump lost like a sore loooser
the guy is a trojan to destroy american state system.
Lol...again, left is do weak and childish, must be why they hate Trump so much, he gives the competition.
Antifa and BLM don't wave Biden flags. Extreme right hate groups wave Trump flags.
It was the Republic's false to acquitted Trump in the impeachment in the first place.
There were no laws broken and the current president-elect is on video bragging about more and higher dollar amount blackmail on the same country?
So important that Trump’s loyalist AG Barr kept the lid on it, right? Not sure why or how you couldneven bring up family stories when you support the current President. Open your eyes and look at the nepotism that has been going on for the past four years.
But can she find the crayons to write it out.
Meaning what, exactly ?
Terrorist
My thought exactly.
I agree. The attack on the Capitol is an act of terrorism.
he means the broad with the turban that hates everything about this country and condoned 9/11
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