Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said Thursday that
President Donald Trump should be removed immediately from office
after inciting the “insurrection” at the US
Capitol.
“What happened at the US Capitol yesterday was an insurrection
against the United States, incited by the president. This president
should not hold office one day longer,” Schumer said, two weeks
before Trump is scheduled to hand over power to President-elect Joe
Biden.
Schumer called for intervention by Vice President Mike Pence,
who angered Trump Wednesday by acknowledging he could not overturn
their election defeat in a ceremonial congressional session raided
by a pro-Trump mob.
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The New York senator called on Pence to invoke the 25th
Amendment, in which the cabinet by a majority vote can remove a
president for incapacity to serve.
“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,” Schumer said.
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“If the vice president and the cabinet refuse to stand up,
Congress should reconvene to impeach the president.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had already told senators
to go home until the eve of the inauguration.
But Schumer is in line to become majority leader after Democrats
were projected to win two Senate runoffs Tuesday in Georgia.
If the threats are carried out, Trump would become the first
president to be impeached twice.
The House of Representatives already voted in December 2019 to
impeach him for holding up congressionally authorized aid to
Ukraine as he pushed for a far-fetched investigation into
Biden.
But Trump remained in office after a vote to remove him failed
in the Republican-controlled Senate.
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