House Democrats are prepared to impeach President Donald Trump if he doesn’t immediately resign, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, as the president came under increasing pressure from members of both parties for encouraging a mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol.
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Throughout her 12 p.m. ET hour show on Thursday, MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell hyped an orchestrated left-wing protest outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office on Capitol Hill as spelling certain doom for any Republican attempt to repeal and replace ObamaCare.
Sensationalizing the “breaking news” at the top of the program, Mitchell breathlessly told viewers:
“And on Capitol Hill, police are currently removing protesters in wheelchairs..pretty extraordinary, these pictures. We’ve had people being carried out by Capitol Police..It’s not their fault, but this is what they are being told by House leadership and Senate leadership to do.” She then proclaimed:
Democrats will start impeaching Trump on MONDAY and strongly believe they will get the Republican votes as Nancy s party races to bring incitement of insurrection charges and GOP members abandon President
House Rep. Ted Lieu, a Democrat from California, announced on Saturday that a single article of impeachment against President Trump will be introduced in Congress on Monday
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell circulated memo among fellow Republicans which said that impeachment trial could start on January 20 at the earliest - when President-elect Joe Biden is to be sworn in
Senate will not reconvene for substantive business until January 19, which is the day that it would likely receive the article of impeachment after it is passed by the House of Representatives
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is moving cautiously as she faces pressure from angry Democrats to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time, while President-elect Joe Biden is making it clear he wants to focus on his agenda and fighting the coronavirus.