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Dems prep ‘incitement of insurrection’ charge against Trump
By LISA MASCARO, BILL BARROW and MARY CLARE JALONICKtoday




WASHINGTON (AP) — Impeachment pressure mounting, the House worked swiftly Monday to try to oust President Donald Trump from office, pushing the vice president and Cabinet to act first in an extraordinary effort to remove Trump in the final days of his presidency.
Trump faces a single charge -- “incitement of insurrection” - in an impeachment resolutionthat the House will begin debating on Wednesday. First, Democrats called on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke constitutional authority under the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office before Jan. 20, when Democrat Joe Biden is to be inaugurated.
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It all adds up to stunning final moments for Trump’s presidency as Democrats and a growing number of Republicans declare that he is unfit for office and could do more damage after inciting a mob that ransacked the U.S. Capitol in a deadly siege last Wednesday.
“President Trump gravely endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of Government,” reads the four-page impeachment bill.
“He will remain a threat to national security, democracy, and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office,” it reads.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is recalling lawmakers to Washington for votes as more Republicans say it’s time for Trump to resign. Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, joined GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska over the weekend in calling for Trump to “go away as soon as possible.”
As security tightened, Biden said Monday he was “not afraid” of taking the oath of office outside — as is traditionally done at the Capitol’s west steps, one of the areas where rioters stormed the building.
Biden said, “It is critically important that there’ll be a real serious focus on holding those folks who engaged in sedition and threatening the lives, defacing public property, caused great damage -- that they be held accountable.”

Biden also said he’s had conversations with senators ahead of a possible impeachment trial. He suggested splitting lawmakers’ time, perhaps “go a half day on dealing with impeachment, a half day on getting my people nominated and confirmed in the Senate, as well as moving on the package” for more COVID relief.
As Congress briefly resumed, an uneasiness swept government. The National Park Service announced it was shutting down public access to the Washington Monument amid threats to disrupt Biden’s inauguration. More lawmakers tested positive for COVID-19 after sheltering during the siege. And new security officials were quickly installed after the Capitol police chief and others were ousted in fallout from the extraordinary attack on the iconic dome of democracy.
A House resolution calling on Vice President Pence to invoke constitutional authority to remove Trump from office was blocked by Republicans. However, the full House is set to hold a roll call vote on that resolution on Tuesday, and it is expected to pass.
After that, Pelosi said Pence will have 24 hours to respond. Next, the House would proceed to impeachment. A vote could come Wednesday.
Pence has given no indication he is ready to proceed on such a course, which would involve invoking the 25th Amendment to the Constitution with a vote by a majority of the Cabinet to oust Trump before Jan. 20.
House Minority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., offered the resolution during the brief session, and said lawmakers must act to ensure that Trump is “removed from the ability to repeat the seditious action that he took.”
It was blocked by Rep. Alex Mooney, R-W.Va., as other GOP lawmakers stood by him.
Pelosi said the Republicans were enabling Trump’s “unhinged, unstable and deranged acts of sedition to continue. Their complicity endangers America, erodes our Democracy, and it must end.”
The impeachment bill from Reps. David Cicilline of Rhode Island, Ted Lieu of California, Jamie Raskin of Maryland and and Jerrold Nadler of New York draws from Trump’s own false statements about his election defeat to Biden.
Judges across the country, including some nominated by Trump, have repeatedly dismissed cases challenging the election results, and Attorney General William Barr, a Trump ally, has said there was no sign of widespread fraud.
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The impeachment legislation details Trump’s pressure on state officials in Georgia to “find” him more votes and his White House rally ahead of the Capitol siege, in which he encouraged thousands of supporters last Wednesday to “fight like hell” and march to the building .
The mob overpowered police, broke through security lines and windows and rampaged through the Capitol, forcing lawmakers to scatter as they were finalizing Biden’s victory over Trump in the Electoral College.
While some have questioned impeaching the president so close to the end of his term, Democrats and others argue he must be held accountable for his actions and prevented from ever again seeking public office. He would be the only president twice impeached.
Republican Sen. Toomey said he doubted impeachment could be done before Biden is inaugurated, even though a growing number of lawmakers say that step is necessary to ensure Trump can never hold elected office again.
“I think the president has disqualified himself from ever, certainly, serving in office again,” Toomey said. “I don’t think he is electable in any way.”
Murkowski, long exasperated with the president, told the Anchorage Daily News on Friday that Trump simply “needs to get out.” A third, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., did not go that far, but on Sunday he warned Trump to be “very careful” in his final days in office.
On impeachment, House Democrats have been considering a strategy to delay for 100 days sending articles of impeachment to the Senate for trial, to allow Biden to focus on other priorities.
There is precedent for pursuing impeachment after officials leave office. In 1876, during the Ulysses Grant administration, War Secretary William Belknap was impeached by the House the day he resigned, and the Senate convened a trial months later. He was acquitted.
Some Republicans warn against impeachment. “They’re not only going to create bad feelings in Congress, they’re really going to create tremendously bad feelings in America,” said Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey.
Still, other Republicans might be supportive.
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Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse said he would take a look at any articles that the House sent over. Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a frequent Trump critic, said he would “vote the right way” if the matter were put in front of him.
Cicilline, leader of the House effort to draft impeachment articles, tweeted Monday that “we now have the votes to impeach,” including 213 cosponsors and private commitments.

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Fantastic. American deep state is doing exactly as expected. Keep on marching towards national suicide.
 
Trump Supporters also killed an officer while breaking into the Capitol building there is a video circulating the internet of him being killed. They could get designated as local terrorists if the escalations continue









Serves these racist bast**ds right. Nearly 20 years ago, the above was happening to innocent Muslims on a daily basis. Anti-Muslim racists were cheering the persecution of Muslims and calling for the murder of them. Now the tables are turning........... :azn:
 
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He was not put on a no-fly list. He was removed from the flight for refusing to wear a mask onboard.
 
Trump got his Benghazi finally. Several killed more than Benghazi.

Pitty
 
Trump got his Benghazi finally. Several killed more than Benghazi.

Pitty

He seems to want to set new records; about to become the first president to be impeached twice, and he did it all in one term. I wonder what the history books will say about him in a generation.
 
New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick (pictured above in 2017 at the White House with President Trump to celebrate the Patriots' Super Bowl win) said on Monday night that he will not reject the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In a one-paragraph statement, the six-time Super Bowl winning coach did not say explicitly that he had turned down the offer from President Donald Trump, instead explaining 'the decision has been made not to move forward with the award' in the wake of last week's deadly siege on the U.S. Capitol. 'Recently, I was offered the opportunity to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which I was flattered by out of respect for what the honor represents and admiration for prior recipients,' the coach said in a statement, which was forwarded to The Associated Press by the team. He added: 'Subsequently, the tragic events of last week occurred and the decision has been made not to move forward with the award. Above all, I am an American citizen with great reverence for our nation's values, freedom and democracy. I know I also represent my family and the New England Patriots team.' Trump and Belichick are seen together left in April 2017. The six-time Super Bowl winning coach is also seen top right with his legendary quarterback Tom Brady in 2019.

 
You have been making these bold claims as far as remember and with passing day, America is regressing. It was indeed very entertaining watching ransacking of American captial, pretty much similar to what happened in Armenia not long ago.

But hey, whose stopping you from your yank arselicking. keep on making fool out of yourself.

Empire time is up.
Except, so far I've been right about almost all my predictions, and you have been right about....nothing.

Also, I didn't make a claim in the comment you quoted, I simply rejected yours. Not the same thing.
 
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I don't think this was a difficult decision by Bill or the NE Patriots organization, despite their closeness and friendship with Trump. Everyone and everything is distancing themselves from anything associated with Trump after the crazy events of the other day.
 
I have watched the whole drama that happened on Jan 6th at Capitol Hill. The mob gathered in D.C because of the consistent rhetoric by Trump that the election was rigged and that he was the real winner. The mob was also incited by Trump to go to the Capitol as his address added oil to the fire. This happening in a country that tells the rest of the world how to run their countries is unpardonable. Problem is that most of the rioters still think that they were in the right.

Is Trump guilty? Yes, IMHO he is and he should not be allowed to get away with it. However, since the majority of Democrats are apprehensive of what he might do during the remaining days in office, they want him out one way or another. I neither live in the USA nor am I her citizen, hence I would leave it to the US Legislature to decide what is best for their country.

Trump's Presidency is going to end after 8 days anyway, I would rather wait until he is out of office before indicting him and only ‘Censure’ him for now. Simultaneously, since Trump turned out to be a self-centered and unhinged President, I also wonder if the world can survive even the last week of him remaining the most powerful man in the world.
 
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With President Donald Trump expected to make a public address in Texas, CNN has vowed not to air the president’s speech live and in full, and called on other “responsible networks” to skip the appearance.

After a tumultuous week that saw Trump accused of sedition over last Wednesday’s riot on Capitol Hill, then threatened with impeachment and excommunicated from social media, the president ventured outside the White House on Tuesday en route to Alamo, Texas.

Ostensibly traveling to Alamo to visit a section of border wall, Trump will likely deliver a lengthy speech, his first since a pre-recorded message last week condemning his supporters who broke the law at the Capitol.

CNN won’t be covering the speech live, host Brian Stelter revealed in a newsletter on Tuesday morning. “There’s a lot of concern about what he’ll say and how he’ll say it,” Stelter wrote, adding that “responsible TV networks will not air Trump live and in full. Not after his incitement last week.”

 
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