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Live updates: House begins effort to remove Trump

Jim Clyburn, a member of House leadership, said Democrats could delay sending impeachment articles to the Senate until after Joe Biden's first 100 days.
Image: Members of the National Guard arrive to the U.S. Capitol days after supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in Washington
Members of the National Guard arrive at the U.S. Capitol on Monday morning. Erin Scott / Reuters
Updated Jan. 11, 2021, 4:31 PM WAT
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democrats on Sunday that her chamber will act with "urgency" to remove President Donald Trump from office, starting with the introduction Monday of a resolution calling on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment. If that fails, Pelosi said House Democrats would move to impeachment.

House Democrats are planning to introduce at least one article of impeachment against Trump on Monday for "incitement of insurrection" when his supporters violently breached the Capitol last Wednesday.

Majority Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., said, however, that the House could delay sending impeachment articles to the Senate until after Joe Biden's first 100 days in office to allow the president-elect to get his agenda off and running, including Covid-19 relief legislation and the confirmation of his Cabinet officials.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said in a memo obtained by NBC News that the soonest his chamber could receive the articles of impeachment would be Jan. 19, the eve of Biden's inauguration, unless senators give unanimous consent to taking a measure up earlier.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/live-blog/live-updates-house-begins-effort-remove-trump-n1253700

Hnnm

The Question many are not asking is why do they want him impeached knowing he have just few days left in office.

Common sense seems to be on a vacation among many

GentleD201:
Hnnm

The Question many are not asking is why do they want him impeached knowing he have just few days left in office.

Common sense seems to be on a vacation among many

Because he still has access to nuclear weapons and other harmful weapons which can be misused to avenge his ridicule

GentleD201:
Hnnm

The Question many are not asking is why do they want him impeached knowing he have just few days left in office.

Common sense seems to be on a vacation among many

Because by Impeaching him 2nd time will take away any benefit a former President will get.

Pelosi of a woman is all out to shame Trump

Mikehot:
Because he still has access to nuclear weapons and other harmful weapontyus which can be misused to avenge his ridicule

Not necessarily, no US president launches sensitive weapons unanimously, there are protocols in place to check that, look up CIA declassified papers on US nuclear policy.

The main reason is bkos of the incitement of his supporters to cause damage, he is a person of influence and what he did is not expected at that level, he should put the Nations interest ahead of his, which is peace as he cannot prove the election was tempered with. That level of maturity what Trump lacks.