Congressmen from the US Democratic Party prepared and circulated a proposal to impeach incumbent President Donald Trump. This was announced on Thursday, January 7, by Democratic Congressman David Sissillin.
“I am circulating the impeachment proposal that Republican Ted Liu, Republican Jamie Ruskin and I prepared to remove the president from office after yesterday’s attack on the US Capitol,” he wrote on his page in Twitterby attaching a draft document to the record.
Earlier in the day, Senate Democratic minority leader Chuck Schumer called on Vice President Mike Pence to remove Trump from office by invoking the 25th Amendment. One of the Republicans, Adam Kinzinger, also spoke out for impeachment.
The 25th Amendment assumes the removal of the president from power in favor of the vice president in the event of the incapacity of the leader or his death.
Also on January 7, NBC News reported that about a hundred US congressional lawmakers have spoken in favor of Trump’s removal from office following his appeal to the 25th Amendment.
On the eve, a member of the House of Representatives Democrat Ilhan Omar promised to prepare materials for bringing charges against Trump and bringing the case to impeachment.
However, the expert, the last chairman of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation, Professor Ruslan Khasbulatov, expressed confidence that, despite the unrest in Washington, it will not come to the impeachment of the current US President Donald Trump, since only 10-12 days are left before the inauguration of the elected head of state Joe Biden …
On January 6, during congressional deliberations on the presidential vote, Trump supporters stormed the congressional building and rioted. As a result, four people died, several dozen law enforcement officers were injured.
Experts expressed the opinion that the events in Washington would undermine the authority of the United States in the world and lead to a change in the country’s electoral system.