President Trump after last week’s ransacking of the U.S. Capitol, unless Vice President
Mike Pence and the Cabinet agree to remove him under the 25th Amendment.
Pelosi’s plan, disclosed in a letter to colleagues, came as a second Republican senator — Sen.
Patrick J. Toomey of Pennsylvania — joined Sen.
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska in calling on Trump to resign over his incitement of the mob that attacked the seat of Congress on Wednesday. It’s part of an intensifying push by lawmakers to force Trump from power before his term ends at noon on Jan. 20.
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