Pelosi Threatens Impeachment if Trump Doesn't Resign 'Immediately'

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Friday, 08 January 2021 14:02

Excerpt: "The House could vote on impeachment next week."

'If the president does not leave office imminently and willingly, the Congress will proceed with our action,' Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a letter on Friday. (photo: Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times)

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Pelosi Threatens Impeachment if Trump Doesn't Resign 'Immediately'

By The New York Times

08 January 21

The House could vote on impeachment next week. President Trump will not attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. With less than two weeks left of Mr. Trump’s presidency, a wave of resignations hits his cabinet.

peaker Nancy Pelosi of California said on Friday that the House would move to impeach President Trump over his role in inciting a violent mob attack on the Capitol if he did not resign “immediately,” appealing to Republicans to join the push to force him from office.

In a letter to members of the House, the speaker invoked the resignation of Richard M. Nixon amid the Watergate scandal, when Republicans prevailed upon the president to resign and avoid the ignominy of an impeachment, calling Mr. Trump’s actions a “horrific assault on our democracy.”

“Today, following the president’s dangerous and seditious acts, Republicans in Congress need to follow that example and call on Trump to depart his office — immediately,” she wrote. “If the president does not leave office imminently and willingly, the Congress will proceed with our action.”

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