United States: House of Representatives would ask …

Barely 10 days before the end of his term, US President Donald Trump could be indicted for encouraging the takeover of the Capitol carried out on Wednesday by some of his supporters. According to local media, the House of Representatives’ request to deal with the president could be effective on Monday and he already has over 180 members of Congress in favor and support of a large group of senators, including two Republicans.

According to Democratic Party sources consulted by the American media, there will be no investigation or long public hearings to discuss charges and present witnesses. According to them, the most likely scenario is that one of the members of the Democratic caucus in the House of Representatives (Lower House) lay the charges against the president and a simple majority -which officially belongs to the opposition, even if not all of them have a spokesperson. Promptly approve the impeachment process.

However, this would be primarily a symbolic act, as it Republicans unlikely to allow express impeachment in Senate (Upper House), the only chamber that can dismiss the president with a special majority of 67 lawmakers, which Democrats fail to achieve.

Between the republicans who questioned the president is the senator from Pennsylvania Pat Toomey, who expressed in dialogue with the channel ABC What Trump “must resign and leave as soon as possible”. “It’s the best way, the best way to leave that person in our rearview mirror,” he said.

The Republican Senator from Alaska spoke in a similar vein Lisa Murkowski, who also called for Trump’s departure before Wednesday 20, when he is due to hand over power to President-elect, opposition Joe Biden, although he has already made it clear that he will not be attending the ceremony. inauguration.

The democrat Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the Lower House who in the attack on Capitol Hill saw his office vandalized, had announced that if Vice President Mike Pence did not activate the 25th Constitutional Amendment to impeach Trump, she would allow the charges to be presented in the precinct for a second political trial – Trump faced a first trial in late 2019, in which he was acquitted on charges of asking Ukraine for help to increase his chances of ‘be reelected in 2020 – unprecedented for the United States.

According to the ANSA news agency, David Cicilline, a member of the Democratic Congress and one of the signatories of the draft request for the opening of a political trial, assured in the last hours that he already had the express support of “more than 180 seats “, which means What they still have to convince at least 38 bench mates.

Despite the essentially symbolic nature of the initiative, some Republicans have already anticipated that they will fight to avoid it. he Republican Congressman Jim Jordan and member of the lower house justice commission, where he should initiate the processing of the request for the opening of the indictment, He warned on Sunday that this process could further exacerbate the polarization ahead of the transfer of command.

“Let’s calm down and focus on unifying the country,” he said in a dialogue with Fox, after considering that a new indictment against Trump would be “unconstitutional”.

Trump’s reaction

Silenced by Facebook and Twitter, the US president said he was considering creating his own platform to disseminate his messages without filters. CNN news channel reported that he is currently preparing his defense and that could name Rudolph Giuliani and Alan Dershowitz as his lawyers, the same who defended him during the first political trial.

As expectations grow for the start of an impeachment process that will further strain the political climate on the eve of Biden’s inauguration, data continues to emerge linking Trump and even the Republican Party to him. Capitol Hill attack. and the bands that performed there.

Among them, a telephone recording broadcast by one of the arms of the Republican Association of Prosecutors calling, the day before, for the demonstration in Washington. “At 1 pm, we will walk towards the Capitol building and we will ask Congress to stop this flight,” said the recording, which was revealed by the channel. ABC.