House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said the House may go forward with impeachment of President Donald Trump if 25th Amendment is not invoked.
She has the support of incoming Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who also said he would fire the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger.
Schumer called on the Cabinet to remove Trump from office, adding that he shouldn’t be president “one day” longer.
“What happened at the U.S. Capitol yesterday was an insurrection against the United States, incited by the president. This president should not hold office one day longer,” Schumer wrote in the statement.
“The quickest and most effective way – it can be done today – to remove this president from office would be for the Vice President to immediately invoke the 25th amendment. If the Vice President and the Cabinet refuse to stand up, Congress should reconvene to impeach the president.”
Grassroots.ng reports how Trump supporters intruded the power transition process at the Capitol on Wednesday.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh also yesterday said Trump should be removed from office.
“I absolutely believe that the president should be removed from office,” Walsh said during his regular briefing at Faneuil Hall, calling on officials in Washington to start “a process right now, they should be moving forward [based] on what he did yesterday.”
The American political institutions were tested on Wednesday with a deliberate assault on its democracy by a sitting President, Donald Trump and his supporters, who attempted to exploit a final opportunity to overturn a free and fair election won by President-elect Joe Biden.
After the extraordinary act of violence from the riotous mob forced the U.S. legislators to evacuate the Capitol during the counting of the Electoral College votes in the presidential election, Congress voted in the early morning hours of yesterday to certify the results showing Biden defeated Trump.
A spirited objection by a group of Republican lawmakers of the results of Arizona and Pennsylvania did not withstand a vote in either the House of Representatives or the Senate.
Debates of the objections to Arizona had barely started on Wednesday when Trump supporters stormed the building and disrupted the proceedings.
The International Association of Political Consultants (IAPC) condemned the attack on the Capitol.
“With more than 50 years as a global champion of democracy, the IAPC believes these events underscore the importance of ethical leadership, election transparency, respects for the facts and understanding and respect of due process in constitutional democracies,” the association said in a statement by its president, Mauricio De Vengoechea.