House again impeaches President Trump, who releases video following vote
President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House for a historic second time Wednesday, charged with 바카라 게임 웹사이트incitement of insurrection바카라 게임 웹사이트 over the deadly mob siege of the Capitol in a swift and stunning collapse of his final days in office.
With the Capitol secured by armed National Guard troops inside and out, the House voted 232-197 to impeach Trump, with 10 Republican representatives siding with Democrats. The proceedings moved at lightning speed, with lawmakers voting just one week after violent pro-Trump loyalists stormed the U.S. Capitol, urged on by the president바카라 게임 웹사이트s calls for them to 바카라 게임 웹사이트fight like hell바카라 게임 웹사이트 against the election results.
Democrats said he needed to be held accountable and warned ominously of a 바카라 게임 웹사이트clear and present danger바카라 게임 웹사이트 if Congress should leave him unchecked before President-elect Joe Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트s inauguration Jan. 20.
Biden said in a statement after the vote that it was his hope the Senate leadership 바카라 게임 웹사이트will find a way to deal with their Constitutional responsibilities on impeachment while also working on the other urgent business of this nation.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Trump is the only U.S. president to be twice impeached.
The Capitol insurrection stunned and angered lawmakers, who were sent scrambling for safety as the mob descended, and it revealed the fragility of the nation바카라 게임 웹사이트s history of peaceful transfers of power. The riot also forced a reckoning among some Republicans, who have stood by Trump throughout his presidency and largely allowed him to spread false attacks against the integrity of the 2020 election.
Trump responded in a video Wednesday released after the impeachment, saying he unequivocally condemns the violence that happened last week.
He said mob violence goes against everything he believes in and everything his movement stands for. He said violence and vandalism have no place in our country and in his movement.
바카라 게임 웹사이트No true supporter of mine could ever endorse political violence,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Trump said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트No true supporter of mine could ever threaten or harass their fellow Americans.바카라 게임 웹사이트
He said anyone who does those things are not in support of his movement but attacking it and the country.
The president also called for people to obey the law and law enforcement. Trump also said that he had directed federal agencies 바카라 게임 웹사이트to use all necessary resources to maintain order in Washington, D.C.바카라 게임 웹사이트 over the next week.
Speaking to possible demonstrations in Washington and across the U.S., he urged for no violence, no lawbreaking and no vandalism of any kind.
바카라 게임 웹사이트Every American deserves to have their voice heard in a respectful and peaceful way,바카라 게임 웹사이트 he said.
Earlier, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi invoked Abraham Lincoln and the Bible, imploring lawmakers to uphold their oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign 바카라 게임 웹사이트and domestic.바카라 게임 웹사이트
She said of Trump: 바카라 게임 웹사이트He must go, he is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love.바카라 게임 웹사이트
In the face of the accusations against him and with the FBI warning of more violence, Trump said, 바카라 게임 웹사이트That is not what I stand for, and it is not what America stands for. I call on ALL Americans to help ease tensions and calm tempers.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Trump was first impeached by the House in 2019 over his dealings with Ukraine, but the Senate voted in 2020 acquit. He is the first to be impeached twice. None has been convicted by the Senate, but Republicans said Wednesday that could change in the rapidly shifting political environment as officeholders, donors, big business and others peel away from the defeated president.
The earliest Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell would start an impeachment trial is next Tuesday, the day before Trump is already set to leave the White House, McConnell's office said. The legislation is also intended to prevent Trump from ever running again.
McConnell believes Trump committed impeachable offenses and considers the Democrats바카라 게임 웹사이트 impeachment drive an opportunity to reduce the divisive, chaotic president바카라 게임 웹사이트s hold on the GOP, a Republican strategist told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
McConnell told major donors over the weekend that he was through with Trump, said the strategist, who demanded anonymity to describe McConnell바카라 게임 웹사이트s conversations.
In a note to colleagues Wednesday, McConnell said he had 바카라 게임 웹사이트not made a final decision on how I will vote.바카라 게임 웹사이트
But McConnell later said he didn바카라 게임 웹사이트t think a fair or serious trial could occur before Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트s inauguration.
Unlike his first time, Trump faces this impeachment as a weakened leader, having lost his own reelection as well as the Senate Republican majority.
Even Trump ally Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, shifted his position and said Wednesday the president bears responsibility for the horrifying day at the Capitol.
In making a case for the 바카라 게임 웹사이트high crimes and misdemeanors바카라 게임 웹사이트 demanded in the Constitution, the four-page impeachment resolution approved Wednesday relies on Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트s own incendiary rhetoric and the falsehoods he spread about Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트s election victory, including at a rally near the White House on the day of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
A Capitol Police officer died from injuries suffered in the riot, and police shot and killed a woman during the siege. Three other people died in what authorities said were medical emergencies. The riot delayed the tally of Electoral College votes that was the last step in finalizing Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트s victory.
Ten Republican lawmakers, including third-ranking House GOP leader Liz Cheney of Wyoming, voted to impeach Trump, cleaving the Republican leadership, and the party itself.
Cheney, whose father is the former Republican vice president, said of Trump's actions summoning the mob that "there has never been a greater betrayal by a president바카라 게임 웹사이트 of his office.
Trump was said to be livid with perceived disloyalty from McConnell and Cheney.
With the team around Trump hollowed out and his Twitter account silenced by the social media company, the president was deeply frustrated that he could not hit back, according to White House officials and Republicans close to the West Wing who weren바카라 게임 웹사이트t authorized to speak publicly about private conversations.
From the White House, Trump leaned on Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to push Republican senators to resist, while chief of staff Mark Meadows called some of his former colleagues on Capitol Hill.
The president바카라 게임 웹사이트s sturdy popularity with the GOP lawmakers바카라 게임 웹사이트 constituents still had some sway, and most House Republicans voted not to impeach.
Security was exceptionally tight at the Capitol, with tall fences around the complex. Metal-detector screenings were required for lawmakers entering the House chamber, where a week earlier lawmakers huddled inside as police, guns drawn, barricade the door from rioters.
바카라 게임 웹사이트We are debating this historic measure at a crime scene,바카라 게임 웹사이트 said Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass.
During the debate, some Republicans repeated the falsehoods spread by Trump about the election and argued that the president has been treated unfairly by Democrats from the day he took office.
Other Republicans argued the impeachment was a rushed sham and complained about a double standard applied to his supporters but not to the liberal left. Some simply appealed for the nation to move on.
Rep. Tom McClintock of California said, 바카라 게임 웹사이트Every movement has a lunatic fringe."
Yet Democratic Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo. and others recounted the harrowing day as rioters pounded on the chamber door trying to break in. Some called it a 바카라 게임 웹사이트coup바카라 게임 웹사이트 attempt.
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., contended that Trump was 바카라 게임 웹사이트capable of starting a civil war.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Conviction and removal of Trump would require a two-thirds vote in the Senate, which will be evenly divided. Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania joined Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska over the weekend in calling for Trump to 바카라 게임 웹사이트go away as soon as possible.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Fending off concerns that an impeachment trial would bog down his first days in office, Biden is encouraging senators to divide their time between taking up his priorities of confirming his nominees and approving COVID-19 relief while also conducting the trial.
The impeachment bill draws from Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트s own false statements about his election defeat to Biden. Judges across the country, including some nominated by Trump, have repeatedly dismissed cases challenging the election results, and former Attorney General William Barr, a Trump ally, has said there was no sign of widespread fraud.
The House had first tried to persuade Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet to invoke their authority under the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. Pence declined to do so, but the House passed the resolution anyway.
The impeachment bill also details Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트s pressure on state officials in Georgia to 바카라 게임 웹사이트find바카라 게임 웹사이트 him more votes.
While some have questioned impeaching the president so close to the end of his term, there is precedent. In 1876, during the Ulysses Grant administration, War Secretary William Belknap was impeached by the House the day he resigned, and the Senate convened a trial months later. He was acquitted.
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Associated Press writers Kevin Freking, Andrew Taylor and Zeke Miller and Hearst TV contributed to this report.