Friday, 08 January 2021_US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer have called for the urgent removal of President Donald Trump from power.
"This is an emergency of the highest magnitude," Pelosi said Thursday following violence at the US Capitol a day earlier, branding Trump "a very dangerous person who should not continue in office."
She called on Vice President Mike Pence and Trump's cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment which allows for a cabinet majority to remove a president deemed unable to discharge his duties.
"If the vice president and cabinet do not act, the Congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment,” she said, adding, "The president has committed an unspeakable assault on our nation and our people.”
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer also said that Trump should be removed from office, adding what the incumbent has done recently is “a manifestly impeachable offense.”
“The President's abuse of power, his incitement of a mob against a duly elected representative body of the United States is a manifestly impeachable offense if there ever was an impeachable offense, what the President did was it."
On Wednesday, armed protesters broke into the US Capitol, forcing the chamber to halt the ongoing vote to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s election win.
After two months of refusal to accept his defeat in the November 3 election, Trump sparked violence in the Capitol, calling on his supporters to “fight like hell.”
Meanwhile, Biden said Thursday that Trump has “made his contempt for our democracy, the Constitution, the rule of law, clear in everything he has done."
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