Punchbowl news founder Anna Palmer breaks down alleged âscreaming matchâ between Trump and leader McCarthy
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LOS ANGELES - Kevin McCarthy has been one of Donald Trump’s closest allies on Capitol Hill, and that relationship came to a friction point on Wednesday.
In the aftermath of Wednesday’s protests at the Capitol, political journalist Anna Palmer spoke with FOX 11’s Elex Michaelson about a phone call between the President and the House Minority Leader in which the two allegedly came to verbal blows.
This according to reporting by Palmer’s recently-launched news outlet Punchbowl News. [McCarthy] called the President, they got into a screaming match, we broke that news, over the fact that the Minority Leader, McCarthy, wanted the President to put out a statement, to call off his supporters, that turned into this mob, as the Capitol was under assault.
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As demands for the impeachment of Donald Trump grew in intensity Saturday, House Democrats united in support of a strategy to address the threat posed by a president who on January 6 incited a mob to storm the Capitol where members of Congress were certifying the election of Joe Biden as Trump’s successor. House Democrats will on Monday give Vice Pence 24 hours to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump. If Pence fails to act, the impeachment process will begin on Tuesday.
House will move to impeach Trump if he doesn’t resign ‘immediately’: Speaker Pelosi
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Congressman Kaiali’i Kahele said he fully support removing Trump from office US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said the House would move ahead with the process to impeach President Donald Trump for encouraging a mob that stormed the Capitol if he did not resign “immediately”.
Trump, who lost the November 3 elections, would be succeeded by Joe Biden on January 20 as mandated by the Constitution. However, Pelosi and the Democrats believe that in the aftermath of the incident of his supporters storming the Capitol on Wednesday, he should be removed from office immediately.
Democrats Demand Answers From Justice Dept. About Trumpâs Role as Impeachment Threat Looms
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House Democrats intend to introduce an article of impeachment on Monday charging President Trump with âwillfully inciting violence against the government of the United States.â President-elect Joe Biden prioritizes the economy, saying there is a âa dire, dire need to act now.â
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The White House, on Friday night.Credit.Doug Mills/The New York Times
As Saturday dawned on a White House in turmoil, with President Trump unable to communicate on Twitter and other platforms, momentum for impeaching him a second time was rapidly growing among rank-and-file Democrats and some Republicans.