Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has said if Mike Pence and the cabinet do not invoke the 25th Amendment the House will likely go forward with impeachment. She says Trump cited 'sedition' against the U.S. House Democrats meet Friday to decide on their course of action
* House Caucus meets Friday to discuss impeachment
* Several top Democrats said a vote next week was likely
* GOP Sen. Ben Sasse said he would consider backing impeachment
* To succeed two-thirds of senators would have to vote to impeach
* Comes as 25th Amendment action appears to be falling apart
* Pompeo, the Secretary of State, and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin have reportedly discussed removing Trump
* Both men have held informal discussions with their staff about the 25th Amendment, CNBC reported
* Both men reportedly concluded that the 25th Amendment was not the way forward for the country
* Two cabinet secretaries resigned Thursday
* House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Trump had incited 'sedition' against the US
* Pelosi demanded the president's removal from office, as did Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer * Both Democrat leaders called VP Mike Pence to demand Trump's removal from office - but were put on hold
* Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger posted a video in which he called for Trump to be removed
* Trump finally promised an 'orderly transition' on January 20 but maintained his false claims of election fraud
* The president had incited his supporters to storm the Capitol, forcing a halt to the electoral vote proceedings and his violent invaders ransacked offices, waved the Confederate flag and swung from a Senate balcony
House Democrats held a conference call Friday to discuss a plan to rush through articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump in the final 13 days of his presidency – with leaders saying the votes are likely there for it.
Leaders of both chambers, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Leader Charles Schumer – said they would support impeachment if Vice President Mike Pence fails to act with the Trump cabinet under the 25th amendment to strip him of authority following the Capitol riot on Wednesday.
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Update #1: Democrats poised to impeach Trump again (The Hill)
Update #2: Democrats speed toward Trump’s impeachment (Politico)
WNU Editor: So the Democrats are going to rush articles of impeachment with little if any debate to impeach President Trump and to not only remove him from office, but to ban him from running again.
And they accuse President Trump of making the U.S. a "banana republic"!?!?!?
Talk about over-reach.
And no. President Trump is not going to be removed from office.
But this vote is going to be interesting to me on who among the Republicans are going to support this motion. Seventy-five million Americans voted for President Trump in the last election, and they are not blaming the President for what happened on Wednesday .... Trump's fans condemn violence, but they aren't about to blame him (Reuters). With those numbers will the never-Trumpers stick to their principles? We shall see.
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Impossible to understand the thinking of many on the left.
and if they listen, the military has gone rougue .
then i will simplify for you:
Pence et al were asked to use 25th amendment to remove Trump for reasons to clear to elaborate here. this would simply shorten his office by 15 days and would then allow him to run again in the next election. If the leadership refused, then the Dems would proceed to impeach. That would prevent him from running again.
Now you might object to what the Dems have in mind, but if they control the Senate and the House, it can and will be done.
WHAT THEN IS THE WISE CHOICE FOR THE GOP?
(call this hardball if you will but the GOP has done that with Supreme Court appointments etc so both sides can play that game)
Trump's fans condemn violence, but they aren't about to blame him (Reuters)
That headline itself by Reuters is propaganda.
By that one headline Reuters is implying that everyone there were Trump supporters. Reuters being a very large world wide news service should have or did have people on the ground in Washington. They would have, should have or did notice ANTIFA in Washington.
What I expected is that stragglers or people on the edges of the rally would have been beaten by ANTIFA. That is what I expected. That is what was done in the past.
Maybe ANTIFA allies of the DNC planned several different things depending on how things unfolded.
Maybe the pallets of lumber, bricks and propane tanks were head fakes, so that people believed that ANTIFA would follow the play most used in the ANTIFA playbook. This was a mistake.
DHS has cloned ANTIFA phones and used other methods to identify and track them in Portland and elsewhere. I expected arrest after several months. Nothing.
I expected arrest after the election. Nothing
I expected arrest after Beijing Joe was crookedly selected by the electors. Nothing.
What will happen is that Soros & DNC linked groups will simply stop their payroll and their soldiers will go back to drifting, begging, and shoplifitng. They will stop the payroll and simply invest the money in stock to grow the war chest until the next election cycle.
The rent-a-rioters will gradually subside in their rioting except maybe in Seattle and Portland.
Do not hold you breath to see more ANTIFA arrested in any big way. You will die of asphyxiation.
All future rallies are problematic. ANTIFA will assault police and hide behind non-liberals using them as meatshield and concealment. The usual intimidation and physical assaults will continue to take place.
If you got to a legislative building to be in the galleries or stand outside, ANTIFA will be there hiding among the crowd to assault police (in the future legislators) and cast the blame on others.
Democrats can go (and have) into the building and act up but other cannot.
(call this hardball if you will but the GOP has done that with Supreme Court appointments etc so both sides can play that game)
It is not unusual for people to be nominated to SCOTUS in an election year. It is normal. It is not hardball.
For you to call it hardball is for you to lie yet again like a mother
Or did you forget the facts again because it was not today's TPM
"Now you might object to what the Dems have in mind, but if they control the Senate and the House, it can and will be done."
Such a vicious bitch you are and a dumb one,.
You are not a student of history. Otherwise you would not have the diarrhea of the mouth that you have.
You heard the saying "Be careful what you wish for." ?
Pelosi is wishing for proscriptions. What period of history does that remind of?
Among your many faults you are ignorant of history as well. If we have proscription, I will make sure the same happens to certain people unto 3 generations.
"To clear to elaborate here" in other words you are a liar. Go ahead and try.
Clerky just loves proscriptions, censorship, general all around suppression. Scratch ole clerky and the old time maoist is right there.
They cannot ban him from running for any election, they do not have the power to do so.
They'll try
"To clear to elaborate here"
The above phrase must be composed by some professor trying to come up with a new language called "Experimental Gibberish."
FBI Says No Evidence Of Antifa In The Capitol Mob
Washington (CNN)Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah said Friday that President Donald Trump lied to the American people about the 2020 presidential election results and said that he should "seriously consider" resigning from office after Wednesday's deadly insurrection at the US Capitol.
Farah said on CNN's "New Day" that she holds Trump responsible for inciting the mob that stormed the US Capitol in an attempt to stop Congress' certification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College win and allowing this "lie to take a life of its own that the election might be overturned."
Asked by CNN's John Berman if she would feel safer today if Trump resigned and Vice President Mike Pence took over, Farah replied, "I would."
"I think that it's something (Trump) should seriously consider," she said. "I don't think that -- when you've got just a number of days left -- there's any need to carry on kind of the charade of an impeachment."
Trump's desperate attempt to save his imploding presidency
Farah's statement joins former White House chief of staff John Kelly in calling for Trump to either step down or be removed from office in his final days, an extraordinary rebuke of a sitting President from once high-ranking administration officials.
In a speech Wednesday, Trump ginned up the crowd of his supporters gathered on the National Mall, telling them "we're going to walk down to the Capitol" and that "you'll never take back our country with weakness, you have to show strength."
His supporters left the speech and headed to the US Capitol, breached the barriers and stormed the building, assaulted police officers and members of the media, and vandalized and stole from lawmakers' offices. The violence has so far resulted in five deaths -- including a US Capitol police officer -- and more than 50 injured.
Hours later, the President offered only mild rebukes in social media posts that have since been removed. He told rioters to "go home now," but added "we love you" and "you are special" while still pushing his unfounded claims about the election. He later appeared to justify their actions in a tweet Wednesday.
Farah on CNN Friday argued that the President should've issued a "forceful denunciation" of the riots and urged his supporters to "stand down."
"When the moment called for leadership, he did not do the right thing and lives were lost because of it," she said.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos submitted her resignation on Thursday after she believed that it would not be possible to remove President Donald Trump from office under the 25th Amendment, according to an adviser.
DeVos decided to step down from the Cabinet after learning that Vice President Mike Pence opposed calls to invoke the 25th Amendment to oust Trump from office before Jan. 20, the adviser said.
“Once that option was off the table, resignation was the only option,” the DeVos adviser said, saying that “this week was a clear line in the sand” for her.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos submitted her resignation on Thursday after she believed that it would not be possible to remove President Donald Trump from office under the 25th Amendment, according to an adviser.
DeVos decided to step down from the Cabinet after learning that Vice President Mike Pence opposed calls to invoke the 25th Amendment to oust Trump from office before Jan. 20, the adviser said.
“Once that option was off the table, resignation was the only option,” the DeVos adviser said, saying that “this week was a clear line in the sand” for her.
Yo, stalker!!
fuck you and your mother. ah, mommy busy at work in rest room at bush stop. well tell her she birthed some piece of shit
Alright clerky, that's some self control you have.
The first mistake is believing they think, Lapides then big mouth are prime examples.
What time date stamp is big mouth?
He's so obvious as to not need one.
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