Irish Daily Mirror

President faces new impeachmen­t over ‘ incitement’ of rioting

- BY CHRISTOPHE­R BUCKTIN US Editor

DEMOCRATS moved to impeach Donald Trump with “incitement of insurrecti­on” after Republican­s blocked a measure to remove him using the US constituti­on.

Lawmakers want to ensure the election loser, 74, can never run for President again.

The impeachmen­t bill cites Trump’s pressure on state officials in

Georgia to “find” him more votes, his lies about his defeat to Joe

Biden and his White

House rally before last week’s Capitol riots.

Democrats argue he encouraged thousands of supporters to “fight like hell” before they stormed the building on Wednesday.

They are likely to fail in a bid today to force a vote calling on Vice

President Mike Pence to use the 25th amendment to remove

Trump.

Defeat will see them push ahead with impeachmen­t, which will lead to a Senate trial as early as January 20, the day of Biden’s inaugurati­on. If found guilty of incitement of insurrecti­on it would ban Trump from fulfilling his promise of running for the White House in 2024 or ever again.

First Lady

SHAMEFUL President Trump and wife Melania

Melania Trump yesterday broke her silence about the riot as politician­s moved to certify Biden’s win.

She said in a statement strewn with spelling errors and bad grammar that she “absolutely condemns the violence”.

But she sparked fury by acknowledg­ing the deaths of her husband’s supporters alongside killed police officers Brian Sicknick and Howard Liebengood.

Referring to reports she was putting on a photoshoot as the violence occurred, she slammed “unwarrante­d personal attacks, and false misleading accusation­s on me”.

She also failed to cast blame for Wednesday’s riot on her husband.

Trump, who would be the first US President to be impeached twice, yesterday awarded the Medal of Freedom to ally Jim Jordan and today he travels to his southern border wall. It was revealed that before the riot the FBI and the New York Police passed informatio­n to US Capitol Police about possible violence.

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