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Washington: Democrats in the US House of Representatives plan to introduce new articles of impeachment against Republican President Donald Trump on Monday, calling for his removal from office, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday.
The sources said the articles, which are formal charges of misconduct, were crafted by Democratic Representatives David Cicilline, Ted Lieu and Jamie Raskin following this week s assault on the US Capitol by Trump supporters.
UPDATE 1-U.S. House Democrats to introduce impeachment charges against Trump on Monday -sources Reuters 1/8/2021
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WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives plan to introduce new articles of impeachment against Republican President Donald Trump on Monday, calling for his removal from office, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday.
The sources said the articles, which are formal charges of misconduct, were crafted by Democratic Representatives David Cicilline, Ted Lieu and Jamie Raskin following this week s assault on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters.
A copy of the measure circulating among members of Congress charges Trump with inciting violence against the government of the United States in a bid to overturn his loss to President-elect Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.
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.