Several participants in the Capitol assault were arrested this weekend as Congressional Democrats detail their plans to begin the process for a second political trial of Donald Trump on Monday.
The United States continues this weekend with the arrests of people who stormed the Capitol during the riots of January 6, when a special session was held in Congress to certify the victory of Joe Biden in the 2020 elections.
This Saturday Jake Angeli was arrested authorities have reported. Angeli has occupied the headlines in various media outlets after a photograph went viral in which she dressed as a bison momentarily sits at the main Senate table and with a clenched fist raises her hand in victory.
The subject, a member of the Qanon conspiracy theory movement, who calls himself “Yellowstone Wolf” on his YouTube channel in Florida and Arizona, argues that there is an alleged network of child pornography and child sex trafficking directed by Democrats, among other ideas.
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Jake Angeli calls for “Freedom” inside the Senate House after the Capitol was broken into. Photo / AFP
One of the first detainees on Friday was Richard Barnett, the man who in Congress stormed in and took pictures in the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and who was confiscated in Arkansas.
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Barnett, has been charged with illegal and violent entry into a restricted building, as well as disorderly conduct on the Capitol and stealing public property, by mail from the legislator who allegedly took her after posing for photographers.
Adam Christian Johnson was also arrested, who was seen in the pictures carrying Pelosi’s lectern.
insurrection
The arrests come at the same time that Pelosi has sent a letter to his colleagues in which he states that he would initiate the process of political trial (“impeachment”) if Trump did not resign “immediately.”
Democrats plan to accuse the current president of “inciting an insurrection” for his responsibility in the assault on the Capitol.
Monday is when they plan to run for office against Trump and vote in plenary to formally accuse him of this in the middle of next week, but under the U.S. system, it is the Senate that should be in charge of developing political judgment, which is unlikely.
The proposal was joined by Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska, the first Republican senator to call for the resignation of the outgoing president who is accused of instigating the assault on the Capitol last Wednesday, which left five dead .
“I want him to resign. I want him out. He’s caused quite a bit of harm,” Murkowski said in an interview with the Anchorage Daily News regarding the violent assault of Trump supporters in Congress to interrupt a session in which lawmakers were going to certify the electoral victory of Democrat Joe Biden.
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The draft drafted by Democrats calls for his removal and his “disqualification from holding and enjoying any office of honor, trust or benefit under the United States.”
The progressive bench is confident that this point will help them convince some Republicans in the Senate that they are considering running in the 2024 presidential election and that they see Trump as a possible rival in this race, according to the Politico newspaper.
Trump’s inability
Pelosi has also left open the option of pushing a bill that would create a commission to help decide if a president is “capable” of governing, but dismissing Trump in this way would require the approval of Vice President Mike Pence, who for he has now refused to act.
The proposal seeks to create a new mechanism to comply with the provisions of Amendment 25 of the Constitution, which states that the vice president can replace the president if he declares in writing that this president “is unable” to hold office.
To do this, the vice president must have either a majority in the cabinet or “another type of body that Congress can create by law,” which now does not exist and which the bill seeks to create, although this measure would have no effect without Pence’s complicity.
Before Twitter definitively suspended his personal account this Friday, Trump announced that he would not attend the investiture of Biden, who celebrated this outgoing president’s decision.
“That’s one of the few things he and I have never agreed on. It’s a good thing, don’t come,” Biden said.