Trump Impeached for inciting the deadly riot at the US Capitol
Ten rebel Republicans voted with 222 Democrats after a day of debate in the House of Representatives. Trump becomes the first US president ever to be impeached twice with the proceedings now set to move to the Senate for trial.
The US House of Representatives is preparing a vote to impeach President Donald Trump over his role in last week’s storming of Congress if successful he will become the first president to be impeached twice. The primary consequence of Senate conviction – removal from office – seems of hardly any relevance with so little time left in the Trump presidency. A successful conviction could also result in Trump’s being banned from ever holding federal public office again and stripped of the privileges enjoyed by ex-presidents.
A two-thirds of the majority would be needed in the Senate to convict Mr. Trump meaning at least 17 Republicans would have to vote for conviction. In December 2019. He became the third president to be impeached over charges of breaking the law by asking Ukraine to investigate Mr. Biden to boost his own chances of re-election. But the Senate cleared him.
A simple majority of the House of Representatives is enough to impeach him – but to remove him from office, he then needs to be convicted of those charges by the Senate, where a two-third of majority is not guaranteed.
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, a Trump ally who has said he opposes impeachment, decided not to ask rank-and-file members of the party to vote against the measure,
It comes after Vice-President Mike Pence rejected efforts to invoke the 25th Amendment to strip Trump of power. The Vote in the House of Representatives is expected to pass in the Democratic-led House, which would make Trump the first US president to be impeached twice.
US President Donald Trump called on his supporters to make their voices heard peacefully and unequivocally condemn violence, claiming he was shocked at Capitol calamity and pleads with his supporters “no lawbreaking, no violence, no vandalism” as he reads a five-minute video message from his Oval Office. He also warned about censorship, asking Americans to listen to one another, not to silence one another”.