House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday the House will proceed with legislation to impeach President Donald Trump unless the vice president and Cabinet invoke constitutional authority to force him out, calling Trump a threat to democracy after the deadly assault on the Capitol.
Pelosi made the announcement in a letter to colleagues, framing it as an ultimatum to Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the powers of the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. If not, she said, the House would proceed with impeachment. Trump could become the only president to be impeached twice.
“In protecting our Constitution and our Democracy, we will act with urgency, because this President represents an imminent threat to both,” she said, and added: “The horror of the ongoing assault on our democracy perpetrated by this President is intensified and so is the immediate need for action.”
Pelosi’s plan seeks a vote on Monday on a resolution calling on Pence and Cabinet officials to invoke the 25th Amendment. Under rules when the full House is not convened, any objection would reject the resolution. Pelosi would then put the resolution before the full House on Tuesday. If it were to pass, Pence and the Cabinet would have 24 hours to act before the House would move toward impeachment.
With impeachment planning intensifying, two Republican senators said they want Trump to resign immediately as efforts mounted to prevent Trump from ever again holding elective office in the wake of deadly riots at the Capitol.
House Democrats were expected to introduce articles of impeachment on Monday. The strategy would be to condemn the president’s actions swiftly but delay an impeachment trial in the Senate for 100 days. That would allow President-elect Joe Biden to focus on other priorities as soon as he is inaugurated Jan. 20.
Below is the text of a letter Pelosi sent to her Democrat collogues:
Dear Democratic Colleague,
I want to call to your immediate attention the action to be taken tomorrow morning, when Majority Leader Hoyer will request Unanimous Consent to bring up the Raskin resolution. This resolution calls on the Vice President to convene and mobilize the Cabinet to activate the 25th Amendment to declare the President incapable of executing the duties of his office, after which the Vice President would immediately exercise powers as acting President.
If we do not receive Unanimous Consent, this legislation is planned to be brought up on the Floor the following day. We are calling on the Vice President to respond within 24 hours.
Next, we will proceed with bringing impeachment legislation to the Floor.
In protecting our Constitution and our Democracy, we will act with urgency, because this President represents an imminent threat to both. As the days go by, the horror of the ongoing assault on our democracy perpetrated by this President is intensified and so is the immediate need for action.
I look forward to our Caucus call tomorrow. I am grateful to all Members for the suggestions, observations and input that you have been sending. Your views on the 25th Amendment, 14th Amendment Section 3 and impeachment are valued as we continue. I am answering your communications in chronological order and will do so into the night.
Thank you for your patriotism.
(AP)
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Hey Little Red Riding Hood, this man was elected by 78 million Americans – YOU WEREN’T! Shut up and get back to your little corner!
This women is a despicable lowlife! She never mentioned a word or even condemned the horrible antifa & BLM protests, but all of the sudden she’s worried about democracy!
Liar Liar Mask on fire!
The people could read right through your phoniness!
She hates the constitution & hates the United States of America.
Pray that she doesn’t get what she wants!
We must organize protests in all fifty states at Democratic politicians offices for Trump. Peaceful of course.
Your mandate is to solve the Corona crisis across America & make more “Trump Vaccinations” available immediately.
How dare you threaten Vice President Pence:- You sick old woman!! How dare you waste more taxpayers’ money on bogus impeachment, after already having wasted $25B taxpayers’ money on bogus russian collusion, which always knew had no merits:- You sick old woman!!
When are you going to fix the state of the union speech which you ripped illegally, and must go to prison for having damaged & tampered a Federal Document, You sick old woman!!.
NOW PELOSI IS INCITING VIOLENCE! CANT SHE BE IMPEACED? PUT TOGETHER WHAT IS GOING ON IN SOCIAL MEDIA TOGETHER WITH ENRAGING ALL TRUMPS PEOPLE (74 MILLION) AND IF THATS NOT INCITEMENT WHAT IS!
NOW PELOSI IS INCITING VIOLENCE! CANT SHE BE IMPEACED? PUT TOGETHER WHAT IS GOING ON IN SOCIAL MEDIA TOGETHER WITH ENRAGING ALL TRUMPS PEOPLE (74 MILLION) WITH IMPEACHMENT AND IF THATS NOT INCITEMENT WHAT IS! WOE IS TO THE REPULICAN PARTY WHO HAVE ABSOLUTLY NO BACKBONE!
Ms. Plastic is unhinged. Who does this priviliged WHITE female think she’s threatening? I think she needs to change her Depends and go to bed early. The job is too stressful for her. Is this the best “leader” the dems can put forward?
What about investigating the dubious election results?
Stealing is a huge crime.
No one gets away with it.
The US must not have an illegal coup.
WHAT HAPPENED?
Trump was a probe that the American majority launched into government to make it conform to their political will and traditional constitutional norms.
What he found there was a vast network that includes elected officials, bureaucrats, courts, and corporations, all dedicated to corrupt, self-serving goals and not ours, with many who had sold out to hostile foreign and domestic interests. He sensed this from the start, but gradually learned its full extent.
As soon as Trump began to do well in the 2016 primaries, the GOP perceived a threat and surrounded Trump with party operatives to try to control him. Meanwhile, Obama and his people were already using the FBI and intelligence organizations to put him out of action. That year, he surprised everyone, so not enough votes were stolen for Hillary to defeat him. (They “fixed” this problem during his term and made election results more easily falsified).
Once he was in office, his cocoon of GOP double agents made sure he put their people into the Cabinet and other key positions. As a political neophyte and loner, he didn’t arrive in DC with enough of his own loyal people to prevent this. He also had no personal organizations on the state, local, and federal levels to back him up. Since nearly all the potential hiring prospects with relevant experience were corrupt and allied to anti-Trump forces and policies, he was boxed in. Gen. Flynn was actually loyal and knew the deep state’s secrets, so naturally the double agents got him pushed aside.
He learned who was disloyal, but couldn’t replace them without McConnell’s support. Thus, deep staters like Wray, Haspel, and Barr got in, and stymied him at every turn. They could run out the clock. I marvel at our smart pundits who sniped at his ineffective legal effort to “stop the steal”. He had no DOJ help, no FBI help, and no intelligence help to pull his case together optimally. Instead, the potential legal “A” team sat it out (at best) before and after the election. In any event, the judges and legislatures looked for ways to not do their jobs. Some Trump election lawsuits said that governors and other state officials did illegal things not OK’d by their legislatures. Were the legislators blind to those acts as they unfolded? No! They had other, more personal, priorities.
Oh yeah, the new Supreme Court Justices, afraid of their own shadows. So, on all levels of this sorry government, the checks won’t check and the balances won’t balance.
Amazingly, Trump got a lot done during his term despite unified opposition from both parties. He was a human dynamo, a rarity in DC. In some cases, his interests coincided with those of GOP corporate donors, thus the tax cuts and removal of harmful regulations. In foreign policy, he could do more on his own, which benefited the US and its true allies such as Israel.
Bottom line: Trump-as-probe exposed the vast corrupt network we call government, but had no loyal organization to back him up. He still doesn’t. His movement under him or any leader will have to find a way to organize itself in the face of fierce opposition that controls the means of communication in the US and worldwide. It’s a big country. What are they going to use, smoke signals?
So, right now, there are Trump and his voters, but no political organization in between. Such a group could have managed the last DC rally/march with marshals, etc., to sniff out and neutralize the hotheads (right and/or left wing) who attacked the Capitol. That sacred Capitol filled with robbers and thieves on a normal day. That sacred Capitol guarded by “police” who let the vandals in.
Those who isolated and betrayed Trump and the nation at every turn are hardly the people to cry foul and order us around now. Anyway, their spectacular success in exploiting the DC march will encourage them to egg right wing nut cases on (or impersonate them) to act out new anarchistic behavior. Respond to all news with the question “who benefits?”
If I were Pence I would accept the offer and immediately pardon Trump like Ford did Nixon. It would be the best thing for the country.
A deranged woman is running this country and all these ‘powerful’ politicians are falling in line with her schemes! how the mighty have fallen – they’ll do anything in the hopes of having some position of power in the new ‘regime’ – and it will be a regime! they are all a bunch of ninnies! hashem yiracheim!
who can remember that statement about “Hell knows no fury like? …. something like a really mad woman and this Nasty Peloci is really bent on screwing Trump….
She won’t give up…..
Pekak’s suggestion “If I were Pence I would accept the offer and immediately pardon Trump like Ford did Nixon. It would be the best thing for the country.” is the way to go. Sometimes you have to look forward and do what is most expeditious at the moment. Pence will have a week to do a lot. And Pelosi will have put him in power!
Couple of points.
1. Trump was only ever elected President with about 63M votes, which was about 3M votes less then what Hillary received. This was in 2016.
2. In 2020 Trump lost the Presidential election by about 7M votes.
3. Not in 2016 nor in 2020 has a majority of American’s ever voted for Trump.
4. There are no dubious results in the 2020 presidential election. There are only lies calling it dubious.
5. Calling Pelosi deranged, while believing election lies, seems unhinged.
Pray she gets what she deserves, not what she wants.
We’ve got to protest and rally as often as we can for next four years (2 at minimum). Can’t let the socialists get away with green new deal or any other tax hikes
So here is my question about the authors of the first 11 comments: Are they simply stupid, or are they just so overwhelmed by their beliefs in Trump that they believe anything he says – anything.
And those rioters in pro-Nazi tee shirts? Do any of you Trump supporters think they are planted by tricky left-wingers?
M F D Witch
Anyone supporting trump at this point is completely deranged and anti American. There hasn’t been such a huge act of sedition and insurrection in this country since 1861.
Try this, for the attack on the U.S. Capitol, switch Obama from trump saying the exact same words. Do you have the same reaction?
Its the demise of Eisav and Cham together.
I appreciate all of the passion here and agree with all of it. I wonder if anyone of us have such hislahavus for a good vort on the Parsha or a blatt gemara?!?
America is the lesta stansia (last train station) before Moshiach arrives [attributed to Rav Chaim Volozhiner]
She’s a witch that ripped a presidents speech in front of an entire country and said two weeks ago they should drag him out by his hair and feet and hands and then she wonders why people are angry
Whew Nancy getting hot-we finally have something to shake her-for 6 months she pushed off the Covid checks, now she is running 90 miles a hour!!!
@rt
I think you meant to write:
“Anyone still NOT supporting the president at this point is completely deranged and anti-American.”
Governors changed election rules when they were not allowed to do so, and there are sworn affidavits and videos of what is likely just the tip of the iceberg of what went on. So, the last election was an embarrassment to this great country.
The President was very obviously re-elected, likely by a landslide. To believe that Mr. Biden beat him is simply silly.