Pro-Trump rioters attack, occupy US Capitol; National Guard activated; Biden calls on mob to pull back
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President Donald Trump would face impeachment on a single article of incitement of insurrection, according to a draft document obtained by NBC news.
Democrats plan to introduce misconduct charges on Monday that could lead to a second impeachment of Trump, US media are reporting.
The draft of the article of impeachment against Trump drawn up by Democratic members of the House of Representatives after the storming of the US Capitol accuses him of engaging in high crimes and misdemeanors by inciting insurrection.
The draft says the Republican president willfully made statements that encouraged imminent lawless action at the Capitol.
A Capitol Police officer died Thursday evening. A homicide investigation is underway into the violent confrontation he had with the mob that invaded the U.S. Capitol.
In Tennessee, legislation was introduced Friday that would require the state authorities to investigate any Tennessean participating in Wednesday’s events.
The proposal from Democratic state Rep. London Lamar says that any “seditious and treasonous acts” that took place at the U.S. Capitol by an elected official would constitute grounds for immediate removal.
The legislation comes days after Republican state Rep. Terri Lynn Weaver described Wednesday night as “epic” after attending the demonstrations that preceded the riot. It’s unclear whether Weaver entered the Capitol.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) An increasingly isolated President Donald Trump sought on Friday to stave off a new drive to impeach him and Twitter permanently suspended his account, two days after his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an assault on American democracy.
Twitter, long Trump s favorite way to communicate with his supporters and a way to share his false claims of election fraud with his nearly 90 million followers, had been under increasing pressure to take action after Wednesday s mayhem in Washington.
Trump exhorted thousands of followers to march on the Capitol as Congress met to certify his defeat to Democrat Joe Biden, prompting chaos in which crowds breached the building, forced the evacuation of both chambers and left a police officer and four others dead in their wake.
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