US President Donald Trump. – Dennis Van Tine / STAR MAX / IPx / AP /
A president American “unfit”? Members of the US government discussed the possibility of dismissing Donald Trump of power after the coup de force of his supporters in Congress, several media reported Wednesday evening.
Their discussions focused on 20 th amendment to the US Constitution, which allows the vice president and a majority of the cabinet to declare the president “unfit” to perform his duties, according to CNN channels , CBS and ABC, which rely on anonymous sources.
Two more weeks in office
But no formal proposal has yet been presented to Vice President Mike Pence, CBS said. Several elected officials and editorial writers of major dailies have openly pleaded for this option, even if only
two weeks before the end of Donald Trump’s term . All the Democrats on the Judicial Committee of the House of Representatives thus sent a letter to Mike Pence asking him to invoke the 20 the amendment “in the interests of democracy”.
For them, the outgoing president “is mentally ill and unable to manage and accept the results of the election of 2020 ”. The influential Washington Post also argued for this in a harsh editorial. For his editorial writers, “the president is responsible for the act of sedition” which took place on Capitol Hill, where hundreds of his supporters burst in, while elected officials began the process of certifying the victory of Democrat Joe Biden in the presidential election.
Donald Trump “has proven that it represents a serious threat to democracy, it must be ruled out, ”they add. Others, such as Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar, have said they plan to present new articles of impeachment to Congress in preparation for his impeachment, but the process is longer and unlikely to be successful before the performance. oath of Joe Biden on January.