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House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi joined the growing calls by many Democrats to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove President Donald Trump from office in the final days of his presidency.
At a press conference on Thursday, Pelosi said that if this wasn’t done, the House would be prepared to vote on articles of impeachment.
“I join with the Senate Democratic leader in calling on the Vice President to remove this president by immediately invoking the 25th amendment. If the vice president and Cabinet do not act, the Congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment,” she said.
Pelosi’s remarks come a day after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol as they counted electoral votes, disrupting proceedings and forcing lawmakers to evacuate. Pelosi’s office was among those that were ransacked.
Some congressional Democrats laid the blame on Trump for inciting the riot, calling for his removal from office or impeachment for a second time.
“The President has committed an unspeakable assault on our nation and our people,” Pelosi said.
The Speaker’s comments came shortly after the Senate’s top Democrat, Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer, joined the dozens of lawmakers to call on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment and move with the Cabinet to remove Trump from office.
“If they failed to do so, Congress needed to reconvene to impeach Trump for a second time,” he said.
Pelosi put out a challenge to Trump’s Cabinet: “Ask each member of the Cabinet, do they stand by these actions? Are they ready to say in the next 13 days, this dangerous man can do further harm on this country?
“We are in a dangerous place in this country as long as Donald Trump still sits in the White House,” she added.
Pelosi further said she’s not sure when Pence will respond to her call to trigger the 25th Amendment
“I don’t think it will take long to get an answer form the vice president. It will be yes or it will be no,” she said.