With only one week left before the departure of US President Trump, the official vote on the impeachment bill will also be held tomorrow.
Trump supporters threatened that if Trump was impeached and stepped down, they would raise the banner of protest in 50 states across the United States, and the Capitol would make the same mistake.
According to comprehensive U.S. media reports, House Democrats officially introduced a resolution to impeach President Trump on the 11th, citing Trump’s “sedition” and was mainly responsible for the riots in the U.S. Congress that killed many people last week.
CNN pointed out that the impeachment resolution was the first step for Democrats to start the impeachment vote this week.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced that the House of Representatives would meet on the 13th to vote on the impeachment bill.
As a result, Trump will become the first president in American history to be impeached twice.
Previously, House Speaker Pelosi said that if Vice President Pence did not invoke the 25th amendment to the U.S. Constitution to remove Trump from office, the House of Representatives would formally initiate impeachment proceedings.
Initiating Article 25 of the Constitution means stepping down Trump on the grounds that the president is incapacitated.
has previously analyzed that there are two steps to impeach the president in total: first, the impeachment of the president is initiated by the House of Representatives, which will win the support of a majority of the representatives, and the impeachment will pass.
Secondly, it is handed over to the Senate to decide that if two-thirds of the senators decide that impeachment is established, the president will step down immediately.
But with more than a week left before Trump’s departure, it is difficult to complete all the procedures required for impeachment.
The process of four presidential impeachments in American history takes weeks or even months.
Why do House Democrats know that it is difficult to do it? The Governor of Chang’an Street (WeChat ID: Capital News) noted that Pelosi said in an interview with CBS that Trump must be impeached so that he can’t run for president again.
The Associated Press pointed out that what Democrats need to do now is to completely wipe out Trump’s political influence in case he resurrews in four years.
Even if impeachment cannot be completed during the term of office, it will continue after leaving office.
On the other hand, Trump supporters can’t sit still.
Starting this week, Trump supporters plan to carry out armed protests at all 50 state capitols and U.S. Capitol buildings, starting this week, at least until the day of inauguration.
On January 16, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed information about an armed group.
The ABC cited FBI sources as saying that Trump supporters warned that if Trump was removed before Biden’s inauguration, the pro-Trump armed groups planned to hold armed protests in the capitols in 50 states from January 16, and that the group also planned to ” Revisiting the old place, the U.S. Capitol will usher in the “second round” of protests.
During the congressional riots on January 6 local time, Trump supporters rushed into the U.S. Capitol to suspend the joint meeting of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Protesters confronted and clashed with the military and police. Police shot at the spot, and at least four demonstrators died in the clash. The protesters who hit the Capitol Hill had been publicly planned for weeks on mainstream social media and pro-Trump websites.
Many politicians from both parties in the United States and major media, even Trump’s wife Melania, condemned the violent demonstration.
Half of the House members were threatened with death during the riots, Congressman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with ABC on Sunday.
“If a head of state orders an attack on the U.S. Congress, shouldn’t this be prosecuted? Shouldn’t we respond?” She said, “This is an act of rebellion, an act of hostility, and if no one is responsible, it will happen again.”
On the 11th, local time, the official website of the White House issued a statement saying that the U.S. capital, Washington, D.C., will be in a state of emergency from now onwards until January 24 after Biden’s inauguration.
On the same day, Daniel Canson, director of the National Guard Bureau of the U.S. Department of Defense, said that the Department of Defense has approved up to 15,000 National Guard soldiers to be deployed in Washington, D.C., to ensure the smooth inauguration of the new president.
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