WASHINGTON • The U.S. House rushed ahead Tuesday toward impeaching President Donald Trump for the deadly Capitol attack, taking time only to try to persuade his vice president to push
The House voted in favour of a single article of impeachment formally charging the US leader with inciting insurrection, one week after a pro-Trump mob swarmed the Capitol in a deadly attack.
As the House of Representatives moved on Wednesday toward a vote to make Donald Trump the first U.S. president to be impeached twice, the Senate’s top Republican rejected Democratic calls to reconvene the Senate for an immediate trial, all but ensuring Trump will not be ousted before his term ends next week.