U.S. President Donald Trump should leave office before Inauguration Day after the Capitol Hill riots, German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said, adding that Berlin was confident of a good start to relations with his successor Joe Biden.
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JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump, facing impeachment on a charge of “incitement of insurrection” on Tuesday denied responsibility for his supporters’ violent invasion of the U.S. Capitol last week and said his remarks before the siege were appropriate.
The Republican president told reporters that his speech before Wednesday’s assault - in which he urged supporters to march on the Capitol and fight - had been analyzed by unnamed others, who he said believed it was “totally appropriate.”
“If you read my speech . what I said was totally appropriate,” he told reporters at Joint Base Andrews when asked about any personal responsibility he had regarding the Jan. 6 attack when his supporters stormed the Capitol with members of Congress and his own Vice President Mike Pence inside.
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Democratic members of the House of Representatives planned to introduce articles of impeachment on Monday
The House will take up the articles as early as Tuesday or Wednesday, House Majority Whip James Clyburn told CNN`s State of the Union
Washington: Even as Democrats in the US House of Representatives prepared to move forward with impeachment proceedings, a Republican US senator, Senator Pat Toomey, has called for President Donald Trump to resign on Sunday. The Republican senator said President Trump could face criminal liability after the deadly storming of the US Capitol by his supporters, said a Reuters report.
Gosar’s siblings sent a letter to Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) asking for his help in removing their brother from Congress, the newspaper reported.
It s the third time in three years that members of Gosar s family have publicly voiced their disapproval of the representative.
ADVERTISEMENT We know him to be an extremist and we took that very seriously, Jennifer Gosar told the newspaper. I believe that my brother has been a constant perpetrator of misinformation. . I ve been incredulous at the lack of accountability thus far. I would think Wednesday would be certainly a line. When you talk about what happened the other day, you re talking about treason. You re talking about overthrowing the government. That s what this is. If that doesn t rise to the level of expulsion, what does? said Tim Gosar.