Washington.
Political tension continues in the United States after the assault on Congress on Wednesday, with more and more calls for the resignation of President Donald Trump and the possible start of a new political trial against less than two weeks to officially conclude the his mandate.
The Democratic opposition was joined by several Republicans, outraged by Trump’s behavior in haranguing his supporters to march toward the Congress after a political act in which he repeated his allegations, rejected by the courts, of electoral fraud.
Five people were killed in the chaotic and violent day, including a Capitol policeman.
“Yes, I think the president committed offenses worthy of a political trial (…) His behavior this week disqualifies him from continuing” as president, Republican Sen. Pat Toomey said in an interview with conservative channel Fox.
The Republican senator also spoke along the same lines Ben Sasse, Who said that if a lawsuit is opened he will obviously consider the articles they file against him.
“I think the president has ignored his oath of office (…) to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. He acted against it,” Sasse pointed out.
two options
There are two options under consideration amid surprise and stupor following the unprecedented assault on Congress last Wednesday.
On the one hand, Trump’s disqualification through the amendment of the Constitution for his inability to govern, which should be headed by Vice President Mike Pence and should have the support of half the cabinet presidential, and that seems unlikely.
The other, more plausible, is for Democrats with a majority in the House of Representatives to file a charge of “incitement to insurrection” against the president of the United States to open a new political trial against Trump, and that would make him the only president prosecuted twice.
So far, more than 190 of the 222 Democrats have backed a resolution by Legislator Ted Lieu to file the impeachment charge against Trump.
He would later have to stand trial in the Senate, although he is in recess and has no plans to resume activity until Jan. 19, a day before Democrat Joe Biden takes office as president. .
Delay in political trial to give Biden a margin
However, several Democratic heavyweights in the House have raised this Sunday the possibility of filing charges against Trump, but not sending them to the Senate until the first 100 days of Biden’s arrival in the House have passed. Blanca for not conditioning the beginning of her term.
Democratic Rep. James Clyburn told CNN today that the House could vote on the charges in the political trial “this week,” but it would be given to Biden “The 100 days you need to get your agenda up and running, and we may send the items sometime after that.”
Trump’s silence
Meanwhile, Trump’s silence continues, Twitter and Facebook accounts were suspended this Friday for “risk of inciting violence.”
Two days after temporarily suspending Trump’s account, the social network on Friday permanently deprived of this tool, with which the outgoing president has issued more than 55,000 messages for more than eleven years and which had 89 million followers .
US media have reported that their first public event will take place on Tuesday when the still president travels to Texas to visit the construction of the border wall with Mexico, the symbol of his hard hand in control migrants.