House Democrats release article of impeachment against Donald Trump
House Democrats have drafted and released an article of impeachment against Donald Trump, citing him for “incitement of insurrection” with the attack on the U.S. Capitol Building. The article was drafted by Ted Lieu and David Cicilline.
Cicilline appeared on CNN and revealed that the article of impeachment will be voted on as soon as Monday. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has already threatened to move forward with impeachment if Mike Pence doesn’t invoke the 25th Amendment. We presume that this now means Pence has until Monday to get his act together and make the 25th Amendment happen, or else impeachment will happen.
Keep in mind that with just twelve days to go and a Republican Senate that probably doesn’t have 67 votes to remove, the impeachment effort is less about removing Trump, and more about forcing him to focus on crafting an impeachment defense instead of whatever antics he’d prefer to be focusing on.
