Nancy Pelosi Says Democrats Will Move To Impeach Trump If He Does Not “Willingly” Resign
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said Friday that the House would move to impeach President Donald Trump over his role in inciting a violent mob attack on the Capitol if he does not resign “immediately.”
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The effort to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time in a little more than a year gained momentum on Friday as a growing number of Democrats in Congress shared their support for the move. In a letter to her Democratic colleagues, Pelosi suggested that she would move forward with impeachment proceedings if the president doesn’t resign or if Vice President Pence and a majority of the Trump cabinet declined to remove him from power using the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.
“Following the President’s dangerous and seditious acts, Republicans in Congress need to … call on Trump to depart his office – immediately,” she wrote. “If the President does not leave office imminently and willingly, the Congress will proceed with our action.” The House of Representatives is already set to introduce articles of impeachment against President Trump as early as Monday, source says. That could set up a vote in the House early to the middle of next week. This would be the second time the House has unveiled articles of impeachment against President Trump.
In December 2019, the House impeached Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. But the Senate acquitted him on both charges last February.
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