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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... tol-attack
The House of Representatives on Wednesday impeached Donald Trump for inciting a violent insurrection against the government of the United States a week after he encouraged a mob of his supporters to storm the US Capitol, a historic condemnation that makes him the only American president to be charged twice with committing high crimes and misdemeanors.
After an emotional day-long debate in the chamber where lawmakers cowered last week as rioters vandalized the Capitol, nearly a dozen House Republicans joined Democrats to embrace the constitution’s gravest remedy after vowing to hold Trump to account before he leaves office next week.
The sole article of impeachment charges the defeated president with “inciting an insurrection” that led to what the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, said would be immortalized as a “day of fire” on Capitol Hill.
The president, Pelosi said, represented a “clear and present danger to the nation we all love”.
The final count was 232 to 197, with 10 members of the president’s party supporting his unprecedented second impeachment, making it the most bipartisan impeachment vote in US history. Among them was Liz Cheney, the No 3 House Republican and daughter of Dick Cheney, George W Bush’s vice-president. Though she did not rise to speak on Wednesday, she issued a blistering statement announcing her decision, in which she said that there had “never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States” than Trump’s conduct on 6 January.
“The president of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack,” said Cheney in a statement.
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In the end the rain comes down, washes clean the streets of a blue sky town.
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The US has already been run into the dirt by the biggest dirt maker of them all,Trump.Have you been asleep for the past four years?Have you not noticed what’s been going on in that country for the past four years?90 nice wrote:The dems are worse at it dont forget.
Dems will run the USA into the dirt.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ched-house
Ten Republican members of the US House of Representatives voted to impeach Donald Trump over the deadly insurrection at the Capitol, making it the most bipartisan presidential impeachment in US history.
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If "the most bipartisan presidential impeachment in history" can still only manage 10 votes from the president's party (vs 197 against), following a catastrophic mixture of self-serving rabble-rousing, misconduct and incompetence that will surely never be repeated, I think we can safely say that impeachment is an entirely pointless exercise and no president will ever actually get removed from office under the current rules. Which makes me suspect, again, that the biggest problem here is the position itself.
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I don't think a poster who broke "news" on Nick's such as:90 nice wrote:Fake news
• Brodie Grundy leaving the club
• Josh Jenkins being signed by Collingwood
• The 2020 AFL season being cancelled
is really much of an authority on the topic of what is or isn't fake.
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Trump's constant fanning of outrage and hatred among his supporters, and his deliberate blindness to white terror has led to this: right now, today, it is judged necessary to station 20,000 troops - yes, that is twenty thousand soldiers in Washington just to keep the peace.
There are more American soldiers in Washington than there are in Iraq and Afghanistan both put together.
There are more American soldiers in Washington than there are in Iraq and Afghanistan both put together.
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