Michael Cohen writes foreword for Trump impeachment book
- by Virginia Carter
- in World Media
- — Jan 19, 2021
Trump Twitter ban is "right" but "dangerous": "Twitter CEO":TWITTER CEO Jack Dorsey has defended his company's unprecedented decision to permanently suspend US President Donald Trump from the popular social media site, but warned that it could set a "dangerous precedent" and reflective of the company's failure "to promote healthy conversation" across its platforms.
Following his remarks, Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol and forced lawmakers to suspend the certification of the election results. No president in USA history has previously been impeached twice.
Sources inside the Capitol said the upper chamber of Congress could fall into paralysis as they hold articles of impeachment, claiming they can't do anything else until the vote on conviction is complete.
The current President was impeached for a second time last night, accused of "inciting an insurrection" following last week's violence in the Capitol Building.
"The corruption of Trumpism, the step by step willingness to tolerate 'well, little bit of lying, little bit of demagoguery does it really matter?' We have had a president for four years just hammering away at that, and a party rationalising and enabling that, and the combination I think has done damage that isn't going to go away in a week or a month or a year". Under the amendment, the Vice President and a majority of either the Cabinet or some other body designated by Congress may remove the president from office.
During the two-hour debate yesterday, Democrats said President Trump needed to be held accountable and warned ominously of a "clear and present danger" if Congress should leave him unchecked before President-Elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s inauguration on january 20.
"I want him out". "It hurts my heart". However, some news reports suggest that he is in favor of voting against Trump. Donald Trump - the highest percentage among the SC delegation.
Pelosi was asked at a news conference whether any actions would be taken against lawmakers who may have brought tours to the Capitol the day before the attack, which briefly halted Congress in its duty of certifying Biden's win. He was re-elected each time obtaining at least 56% of the votes cast.
"We will come back", he said in a speech from his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware. Mr. Rice represents the 7 district of SC, an area including Myrtle Beach which voted strongly for Donald Trump. You're the most important figure in the Republican party. Trump ally Lindsey Graham of SC is building support for an alternative of launching a commission to investigate the siege.
USA officials had earlier warned of armed protests in Washington and all 50 states by pro-Trump supporters with some law enforcement officials saying that the violence to spill beyond Washington.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), the GOP Conference Chair, voted for impeachment along with Representatives Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA), Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH), John Katko (R-NY), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), Peter Meijer (R-MI), Dan Newhouse (R-WA), Tom Rice (R-SC), David Valadao (R-CA), and Fred Upton (R-MI). "What will happen will happen", Rice said. "I thought it was like dying".
"The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack", her statement said, adding: "There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution".