House Democrats and Speaker Nancy Pelosi say they will move to impeach President Donald Trump if he doesn’t resign ‘immediately’.
US President-elect Joe Biden on Friday indicated he does not back move to impeach President Donald Trump. Biden said the quickest way to get him out of office is through the transition in two weeks.
“The quickest way that will happen is us being sworn in on the 20th,” said Biden, who will take the oath of office on January 20.
“What actually happens before or after, that is a judgment for the Congress to make. But that's what I am looking forward to: him leaving office,” said Biden, two days after a mob of Trump supporters incited by Trump, marched on Capitol Hill and vandalised the building.
Biden is about to inherit a divided, polarised America and fears that impeachment might create further divisions.
“We're going to do our job and Congress can decide how to proceed,” Biden said.
The House Congress accuses Trump of inciting a riot at Capitol Hill, in which five people were killed. While the White House has dismissed the move to impeach stating that it would “only serve to further divide our great country”; 160 house Representatives have signed the bill drafted by California Representative Ted Lieu of California and Rhode Island Representative David Cicilline. Trump will be only American President to be impeached twice. However, it looks like enough members from the Republican Party may not agree to convict him.
A BBC report shares what is written in the bill drafted to impeach Trump. It reads: “Donald John Trump engaged in high Crimes and Misdemeanours by wilfully inciting violence against the Government of the United States.”
The House’s move to impeach Trump might just be a symbolic gesture to hold the president accountable for Wednesday’s events. If Trump is impeached and convicted, he may be barred from holding a public office ever again.
