HISTORICAL: Trump becomes the first US president to face impeachment twice. House of Commons Democrats and a dozen Republicans believe his rhetoric promoted the violence with which fanatical protesters stormed Congress.
The United States Congress House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump for instigating the uprising a week before he leaves the White House.
With the votes of all Democrats and the support of at least a dozen Republicans, fellow supporters of the president, the threshold of 217 lawmakers was crossed to condemn him.
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This accusation came after Democratic leaders of the legislature believed that Donald Trump’s rhetoric motivated the violent seizure of the Capitol by far-right fans on Jan. 6.
The president’s fanatics came, some armed, to try to stop the legislative certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election. Hours ago, at a rally, the president called on them to “fight with anything” or be willing to “lose the country.”
Trump has maintained for the past two months that there was fraud in the election and claims without any evidence that he won the election. Along the same lines, he has called on his most radical fans to “defend” a triumph that didn’t exist. That rhetoric translated into a violent takeover that has already left at least six dead and what many consider an attempted coup d’état as it tried to stop a democratic institution as the electoral result.
What happens after this vote?
Despite Trump’s only one week in power, Democratic leaders in the legislature have been promoting this process with a view to impeaching the president. A week ago, house speaker Nancy Pelosi said that although she had only 13 days left at the time, “something terrible can happen every day” to Trump in the White House.
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Following this conviction for sedition, Trump’s case goes to the Senate, where two-thirds of this Senate, which is his 67 senators, is needed to remove him from office.
This is unlikely before Joe Biden takes office, especially since his top priority is to ratify his cabinet appointments and reform the financial stimulus package for those affected by COVID-19 to the controls that will see Americans receive $ 600 to $ 2,000.
The matter remains open, however, and if the Senate gets enough votes to ratify the House of Representatives’ conviction, Trump would lose his benefits as outgoing president, including an annual pension, relocation costs when leaving the White House, agents of the Secret. service for your personal safety and your eligibility for public office again.