We begin 2021 where we began 2020: an impeachment of the President of the United States.
But the distance from where we launch articles of impeachment in 2021 compared to 2020 is galactic.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is clear that if Vice President Pence and the cabinet don’t invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office, the House will impeach him this week.
Pelosi said the President must be held accountable. She noted that her phone was exploding with ‘impeach, impeach, impeach.’ She said if Pence and the Cabinet don’t act to gut Mr. Trump of his powers, the House will proceed with our action.
At the heart of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was a lie, one that was allowed to fester and flourish by many of the same Republicans now condemning President Donald Trump for whipping his supporters into a frenzy with his false attacks on the integrity of the 2020 election.
Next, we will proceed with bringing impeachment legislation to the floor, Nancy Pelosi said.
The House will take up a resolution to impeach President Donald Trump for the second time in less than two years unless Vice President Mike Pence and the cabinet invoke the 25th Amendment this week to remove him from office, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. In protecting our Constitution and our Democracy, we will act with urgency, because this President represents an imminent threat to both, Pelosi said in a letter Sunday to House Democrats. As the days go by, the horror of the ongoing assault on our democracy perpetrated by this President is intensified and so is the immediate need for action.