DC attorney general calls on Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump
From CNN s Josiah Ryan
In this December 9, 2019 file photo, US Vice President Mike Pence listens to US President Donald Trump in the Cabinet Room in Washington. Mark Wilson/Getty Images
The Attorney General for the District of Columbia Karl Racine called on Vice President Mike Pence to organize the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office. Whether you like Vice President Pence or not, the fact is he is more fit for office. we need a commander-in-chief that will fulfill his constitutional responsibilities, he told CNN tonight.
McConnell: They tried to disrupt our democracy. They failed
From CNN s Maureen Chowdhury
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Sou
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell lambasted rioters who breached the US Capitol and caused Congress to pause its electoral vote count. We will not bow to lawlessness, or intimidation. We are back at our posts, we will discharge our duty under the Constitution, and for our nation. And we are going to do it, tonight. McConnell said.
McConnell added that Congress will continue the certification process despite the failed insurrection attempt. The United States and the United States Congress have faced down much greater threats than the unhinged crowd we saw today. We have never been deterred before, and we will be not deterred today. They try to disrupt our democracy, they failed. They failed. They failed to attempt to obstruct Congress. This failed insurrection only underscores how crucial the task before us i
Nearly three hours before his speech, Trump, who was to speak at the rally at 11:00 a.m., sent out a barrage of tweets criticizing the then-projected results of the Georgia runoffs where Democratic candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff were leading or had already been projected to be win.
In those morning tweets, ahead of his talk, Trump suggested that the American electoral process was worse than that of third countries and that around 50,000 votes were illegally produced to aid the Democratic candidates, Washington Post reported.
They just happened to find 50,000 ballots late last night. The USA is embarrassed by fools. Our Election Process is worse than that of third world countries!
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‘He screwed the country’: Trump loyalty disintegrates
Wednesday’s Capitol Hill riot will reverberate for years, shaping Trump’s legacy and pushing Republicans to confront the GOP’s future.
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It was, for many of President Donald Trump’s own allies, the final straw.
What began as a rally intended to support Trump became a permanent and irreversible stain on his presidency Wednesday afternoon, as fans of the outgoing president stormed the U.S. Capitol shattering windows, prompting evacuations and injuring law enforcement officials in the process to temporarily halt the certification of his opponent’s 2020 victory.
A distressing scene for many Americans watching from home, the uprising at the Capitol followed two months of provocation from Trump subversive rhetoric about America’s election, threats against GOP figures who didn’t agree, broadsides against his own vice president. And it followed four years of rabble-rousing by a president