Tempers flare as Democrats race to impeach Trump over Capitol rampage

Source:-Newzee


A fiery debate opened in the U.S. #HouseofRepresentatives on Tuesday (January 12) over an effort to remove President Donald #Trump from office for inciting supporters who carried out a deadly rampage at the Capitol last week, while Trump denied wrongdoing.
Democrats pushed Republican lawmakers to disavow Trump's false claim that President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the Nov. 3 election was illegitimate - the very claim that enraged Trump's supporters and prompted the violence in Washington that killed five including a police officer.
Republicans refused to concede that point, instead defending their unsuccessful effort last week to challenge the results of the election.
At a House Rules Committee debate setting the timeline and procedures for Tuesday's debate, lawmakers previewed the potentially emotional battle over the resolution with angry exchanges over Republican efforts to cast doubt on the integrity of Biden's sweeping election win.
House Rules Committee Chairman #JamesMcGovern challenged Republican Representative #JimJordan, who Trump gave a Presidential Medal of Freedom on Monday, to declare that Biden won "fair and square and the election was not stolen."
Jordan refused to utter those words and defended his challenges to the Electoral College result.
The Democratic-led House of Representatives plans to vote as soon as Wednesday on an article of #impeachment charging Trump with inciting insurrection unless he resigns or Vice President Mike Pence moves to oust him under a provision in the U.S. Constitution.
The House will vote later on Tuesday on a resolution calling on Pence, a Republican, to invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, a never-before used power that allows a majority of the Cabinet to strip the president of power if he or she is unable to discharge the office's duties.
Pence advisers say he is opposed to the idea.