Democrats plan impeachment and Twitter deletes Trump s account after Capitol chaos
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday that if Trump did not resign, she had instructed the House Rules Committee to move ahead with a motion for impeachment and legislation on the U.S. Constitution s 25th Amendment, which provides for removal of a president who is unable to discharge his official duties.
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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks to reporters a day after supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump occupied the Capitol, during a news conference in Washington on Jan. 7. REUTERS/Erin Scott
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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.