Nancy Pelosi will launch several actions to obtain the departure of Donald Trump

While Republican calls for the resignation of Donald Trump multiply, the Democratic President of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, said she was ready, Sunday, January 10, to launch in the coming days several rapid actions to obtain the departure of the outgoing president, including a second impeachment procedure, following the violence on Wednesday at the Capitol.

Donald Trump could thus become the only American president in history indicted twice in such an impeachment procedure.

Democrats will appeal to Mike Pence first

In a letter to parliamentarians, Nancy Pelosi explains that a vote would be held Monday or Tuesday on a resolution asking Mike Pence to invoke the 25^e amendment of the Constitution of the United States, which allows the removal of a president considered unfit to perform his duties.

Faithful to Donald Trump but having no further contact with him since the events of last Wednesday, Mike Pence has so far shown no willingness to trigger this device.

Nancy Pelosi specifies that the vice-president will have 24 hours to respond to the House’s injunction which would amount to making him endorse executive powers for the last ten days of Trump’s mandate. President-elect Joe Biden is due to be sworn in on Jan. 20 on the steps of the Capitol.

“Then, the legislation on the impeachment procedure will be brought before the Assembly”, wrote Nancy Pelosi. The indictment article has already been drafted. More than 200 elected members of the House, or nearly half of the representatives, supported the impeachment project on Sunday evening.

A first abortive impeachment procedure

Democrats believe Republican billionaire is now president “Unbalanced” and dangerous and should therefore be ruled out. They also consider that he encouraged his supporters to march last Wednesday on the Capitol where Mike Pence, held by the Constitution, solemnly announced the results of the presidential election of November 3. A victory for Joe Biden that Donald Trump never wanted to accept.

Some Republican elected officials on Sunday called on Donald Trump to resign to spare the country the complexities of the impeachment procedure such as the 25^e amendment.

This “Would be the best option”, Senator Pat Toomey told CNN. Since the presidential election of November 3, which he lost, Donald Trump “Has sunk into a level of madness and has committed absolutely unthinkable and unforgivable acts”, he added.

“The best thing for the unity of the country would be for him to resign”, added on ABC Adam Kinzinger, elected Republican of the House.

A procedure that is not unanimous

Isolated in the White House, released by several ministers, the American billionaire does not seem willing to go of his own accord. He even plans to travel to Texas on Tuesday to praise his immigration policy and the construction of the border wall with Mexico.

But this is a long and complicated procedure and several voices have been raised in the Democratic camp believing that it could slow down the plans of Joe Biden, who has made the response to the Covid-19 pandemic his priority.

“Give the elected president 100 days” early in his term to enable him to tackle the most pressing issues, suggested House Democrat James Clyburn. “We could perhaps introduce the articles [de mise en accusation] a little bit after. “

Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, for his part, estimated on CNN that an impeachment procedure after January 20 “Would not make sense”.

Joe Biden remains very careful. The decision on“Impeachment” returns to Congress, he said.

Donald Trump has already been the target of impeachment proceedings, launched by Democrats in December 2019, in connection with the pressure exerted on Ukraine to open an investigation into Hunter Biden, the son of Joe Biden, and that who was then considered his potential great rival for the presidential election. Trump was acquitted last February by the Senate, where his Republican peers were in the majority at the time.