Three Republican congressmen announce they will support the removal of Donald Trump

Washington dc– Three Republican congressmen announced today that they will vote in favor of the removal of Donald Trump, hours before the federal lower house approves a call for Vice President Michael Pence to ask the cabinet to declare the president of the United States incapable of to govern.

Congressmen Liz Cheney (Wyoming), Adam Kizinger (Illinois) and John Katko (New York) made the announcement, separately, after it became known that the Republican leadership will not press to defend Trump.

“There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States in his office and in the oath to the Constitution,” has indicated Cheney (Wyoming), number three in the federal lower house minority and daughter of former Vice President Richard Cheney.

Liz Cheney has been a critic of Trump, who on the day of the assault on the Capitol by his supporters urged them to hold Congress accountable and said “we need to get rid of weak congressmen, those who don’t they are good, the Liz Cheneys of the world “.

Kinzinger, for his part, stated that “there is no doubt that the President of the United States broke the promise he made by taking his place and incited the insurrection.”

Congressman John Katko (New York) was the first to report that he will vote to oust Trump, who is accused of inciting insurrection with expressions he made the same day of the Capitol assault to fan the his supporters to go to Congress to demand a reversal of the election college result, which confirmed the victory of President-elect Joe Biden.

The assault on the Capitol by Trump-associated mobs caused five deaths, disrupted the constitutional process of counting the votes of the electoral college and endangered the lives of Vice President Michael Pence and members of Congress. , who had to hide in a safe place.

“Allowing the president of the United States to incite this attack without consequences is a direct threat to the future of our democracy. For this reason, I cannot stand by.”, Katko told Syracuse.com.

In the other hand, The New York Times advancing that Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) believes Trump’s actions deserve a removal process, which in turn would help Republicans reduce their political power.

According to legislative sources, at least a dozen Republicans in the lower house have already decided to vote in favor of Trump’s removal.

It would be the first time that the full House of Representatives has twice recommended the removal of the same president.

Trump was charged in December 2019 with charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress by undue pressure on the President of Ukraine, seeking to harm Biden politically.

On that occasion, no Republican in the lower house voted in favor of proposing to the Sendo the removal of Trump. Then the Republican-dominated Senate abolished it. Senator Mitt Romney (Utah) was the only Republican to vote to oust Trump.

The lower house would vote tonight on a resolution that formally calls on Vice President Pence to invoke Amendment 25 of the Constitution to convene the governing cabinet and declare the president disqualified from governing.

The resolution sets a 24-hour deadline before considering the resolution that formally accuses Trump of inciting the insurgency with messages to his supporters to go to Congress to demand a reversal of the election college results, which gave victory to Democrat Joe Biden, who will take the oath of office on Jan. 20.

The House Rules Committee meets this evening to order tomorrow’s historic debate that could end with the approval, for the second time, of impeachment charges against President Trump.

The Democratic majority of the Juridico Committee, meanwhile, released a report defending the removal of President Trump.

“The House must reject this outrageous attempt to reverse the election and this incitement to violence by an incumbent president against his own government. President Trump committed a high crime and a misdemeanor against the nation by inciting an insurrection in the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The facts state that he is not in a position to remain in office even one more day and justify the immediate political trial of the President Trump, ”the report states.

In the Senate, Tim Scott (South Carolina), the only African-American in the caucus of Republican senators, said he will oppose the removal of Trump, to understand that it goes against the interest of President-elect Biden to calm partisan waters.

“A political trial will only generate more hatred and a deeply fractured nation. I oppose the removal of President Trump,” Scott argued.