Calls from Democratic lawmakers and civic and business leaders for Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office continued to grew Wednesday night as they blame him for inciting his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol building earlier in the day.
At least one woman was fatally shot during the chaos that submerged the building on Wednesday as protesters descended upon it to stop Congress from certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over Trump in November’s election.
In condemnation of the violence, many leaders have called on Pence to use his power to invoke the 25th Amendment of the Constitution to remove Trump from the White House.
Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, which has never been invoked, states the president can be removed from power if the vice president and a majority of the cabinet find him “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” It has never before been used.
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee issued a joint statement calling on Pence and Trump’s cabinet to invoke the amendement.
“Even in his video announcement this afternoon, President Trump revealed that he is not mentally sound and is still unable to process and accept the results of the 2020 election,” the members said. “President Trump’s willingness to incite violence and social unrest to overturn the election results by force clearly meet this standard. So too are his recent Tweets, which Twitter has since deleted, saying the election was ‘stolen’ and that today’s riots ‘are the things and events that happen,'” the members said.
“You need to start the 25th Amendment,” Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., tweeted at the vice president. “[President Donald Trump] is detached from Reality.”
Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, called the president “a threat to our democracy and national security” and “most be removed from office immediately.”
“[Pence] must invoke the 25th Amendment,” she tweeted.
Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, said Trump can’t be “trusted with the sacred honor the American people gave him” for the next two weeks until Biden takes over, stating he hopes the 25th Amendment is invoked or an immediate bipartisan impeachment is spearheaded.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Min., said she was drawing up impeachment articles.
“Donald J. Trump should be impeached by the House of Representatives & removed from office by the United States Senate,” she said. “We can’t allow him to remain in office, it’s a matter of preserving our Republic and w need to fulfill our oath.”
First lady Melania Trump’s chief of staff and former White House communications director Stephanie Grisham resigned effective immediately on Wednesday and White House social security Anna Cristina “Rickie” Niceta also stepped down from her position following the riot.
Members of the private sector have also condemned the violence, with Jay Timmons, chief executive officer and president of the National Association of Manufacturers, a major lobbying group in Washington, D.C., said Pence “should seriously consider” working with the cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment.
“This is not law and order. This is chaos. It is mob rule. It is dangerous. This is sedition and should be treated as such,” Timmons said in a statement.
Trump incited the violence, Timmons said, stating any politician who defends his actions is violating the Constitution.
“We are trying to rebuild an economy and save and rebuild lives,” he said. “But none of that will matter if our leaders refuse to fend off this attack on America and our democracy.”
Richard Trumka, president of workers union American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations AFL-CIO, described the violence on Twitter as the greatest assault on U.S. democracy since the civil war.
“Today’s attempted coup has been years in the making as [Trump] consistently spews venom, conspiracies, hate and lies to his supporters,” he said on Twitter. “They are carrying out his wishes, and far too many Republican lawmakers have enabled and even encouraged this violent threat to our Republic.”
Jamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive of J.P. Morgan, condemned the violence in a statement, saying “this is not who we are as a people or a country.”
“Our elected leaders have a responsibly to call for an end to the violence, accept the results and, as our democracy has for hundreds of years, support the peaceful transition of power,” he said.
High Frequency Economics, which produces research and economic forecasts for investment for clients worldwide, said it was suspending it regular research for the first time since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 due to “the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.”
“We at High Frequency Economics are disgusted by the role of the president of the United States in inciting this riot, and we are saddened that he cannot find the character to stand up in front of the mob he has created, quell the violence and send everyone home,” it said in a statement. “Responsibility for this outrage rests securely on his shoulders.”
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the demonrats are out of control lunatics who could give a good dam about the american people.
the useful idiots that voted for this trash should be expelled from our borders as i have said before the left plays hardball
to win the gop are feckless and have been castrated. the 25th amendment being invoked again is plain pure hatred for the rest of us
who support president trump.
all of this b.s. has been caused by the left they own it.
have you seen the amount of vitrial hate the antifa and blm and occupy wall street got away with bloddy murder and rampage with help from politicians.
dam america wake up!
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If Vice President Pence invokes the 25, it will be a sad day in the history of America. It will be a slap in the face of every Republican voter in this country at a time of horrible suffering of American citizens. Beyond the evils of Covid, we have endured the slow motion destruction of infrastructure of cities, law and order and government.
The democrats are hypersensitive to yesterday’s events at the Capital while having “looked the other way” at Seattle, Portland, Denver and cities across our Nation. The democrats in government have no sensitivity to our everyday losses and impending doom. And it’s going to get worse for us .
Trump/Pence would have never happened except for American citizens being ignored and oppressed by administration after administration.
If the 25th invoked, Pence will lose all respect and trust from either party.
“ Walk away Pence. Walk away.”
They didn’t look away. MANY CELEBRATED what was going on as “Civic justice”.. AND IN many cases, SUPPORTED IT with donations to bail the rioters out.
” “looked the other way””?? They enabled, encouraged, and celebrated the violence and destruction! They never even condemned the murders.
America is never gonna wake up. When they take away our guns, there will be no going back. “Dam America wake up!!” Please! And, of course, this whole DC mess is ALL Trump’s fault.
THEY Are welcome to TRY and take the 300+ million guns!
The Democrats are anxious to remove him from office before he can pardon enough people to resist them. He needs to pardon everyone who demonstrated, and arrest the cop who shot the woman. Thanks to the Democrats ANTIFA and BLM members will never ever even be identified.
The morons destroyed the Senate by overiding Judicial nomination precedences and it came back to bite them. They must love to get bitten because if the remove Trump, Biden and the following Democrats will get removed in a similar fashion, and you can kiss ever having a smooth Presidential transition again.
Something is up. The democrats act as if hours matter. Maybe a whole bunch of them are about to be arrested? I’ve seen criminals act like this before when they know something really bad is about to happen to them.
That cop needs to be identified. Looking at the video that looked like no cop. It also looked like cold blooded murder. He took careful aim and shot. It was very deliberate. If it were a black person we’d know everything about him by now. He’d also be in jail.
Who the hell is going to do that arresting?! The cops?? YEA right.
The FBI? Are you smoking?
The DOJ?? Pull the other one.
Right on!
Helmets, backpacks, full face covering…that was Antifa and the cops and the democrat’s know it! And so do the democrat party propagandist’s!
That so-called riot was actually a false-flag event. It’s a “Reichstag Fire”. After taking the 30,000 ft view of yesterday’s events at the capitol building, I’m convinced that it was an orchestrated event to make Trump supporters look bad. You’ve got tens of thousands of people coming to DC to protest an election that was stolen. Congress meeting in the capitol building to certify a fraudulent election. Hardly any cops protecting the place. A badly-constructed gallows put in place for some sensationalist photos. Pictures of grinning idiots carrying confederate flags and hanging white-supremacy banners in the Senate chamber. If you take the view of the establishment here…. What better way to de-legitimize people who are protesting an election that they know was stolen from them…. An election that you yourself helped to steal?
Trump supporters are very, very peeved right now. If they remove Trump now without letting him serve out his last two weeks, I think the country is going to explode into civil war.
IMO it already SHOULD HAVE.
Amen! 1/7/2021 the day our country became the USSA : the United Socialist States of America. Soon to be known as the CE : China East. I have stopped listening to all news media. If you thought 2020 was Hell, wait till you experience 2021.
Its truly a pity, we’ve come to this ….
Hey Nancy, why not go after Antifa for the unrest that occurred yesterday at the capital building. Photographic proof that they initiated and carried thru with the destruction of property.
Photographic proof is probably not enough for you and your team of thugs. Disgusting how members from both sides are IMMEDIATELY ready to place blame. Sad situation for sure.
IF anything, they’re likely to PRAISE WHAT antifa has done… NOT go after it.
Nancy is deaf, dumb and blind to ALL realty!
Can that same 25th amendment be used on them for the damage their gangs have caused throughout the US. I think someone can be. Turn it around on them ?
These leftist lunatics! It will take longer than the 12 days he has left for an impeachment proceeding to occur or even for the 25th amendment to be invoked. Why so desperate unless they are trying to cover something up?
Regardless, Pence is a rat and I wouldn’t trust him very far.
Time will tell. They ARE desperate, so much evidence of the greed and corruption that has been going on for years. They will make false claims and accusations to re-direct your thinking all the while destroying evidence and our country. America has been turned into one big game. The Democrats V. Republicans is no different then Dallas V. Washington it is all a big game. The MEDIA is mostly to blame, too many opinions and not enough facts. Hollywood with anything goes brainwashing the population. Education with bias teachers and making sports more important then knowledge. We need TRADE SCHOOLS to survive this corruption of America.
I had high hopes, with Pence.. BUT just like the hopes we had with other supposed conservatives, he’s shown his TRUE colors. AND THEY ARE NOT RED WHITE AND BLUE.
It would behoove the “GOP” to think long and hard about invoking the 25th Amendment against President Donald J Trump. We know what happened at the Capital , and we’ve watched how Donald Trump was treated for the last four years. We will not stand by and watch politicians in DC defame him without there being consequences. You can take this advice or ignore it , but We, and President Trump will not forget and we will not ignore the next moves. Take that to the bank.
I don’t care anymore. I will never again, vote for anyone in the GOP.. PERIOD.
The democrat’s want President Trump removed from office, because they are afraid he will run in 2024.
If Pence were to do the democrat’s bidding, it would be
because it is the only way he could ever be president
only if that backstabbing judas, ran as a demon-rat.. CAUSE HE CERTAINLY wouldn’t get my vote.
Get real people. There are no new voices here; these are the same Dems and Rinos who have hated Trump all along. And now Pence should listen to their prattling? Tell them to go to hell Mike.
Tell them to go to hell Mike.
I’m sure his oath to uphold the Constitution does not grant him authority in that area. It will take a straight judge who is without sin. (For better or worse, I’m thinking he would agree.)
Honestly, i don’t think Pence the judas, cares about honoring his oath anymore..
I wouldn’t think Pence would do this in a million years. But now I understand old saggy chest Pelosi is going to file articles of impeachment. They will do anything to desecrate Trump, his supporters and anyone associated with his term in office. This is not anywhere near over. There will be tit for tat down the road. The democrats must be very afraid of the animal they have wounded and want to make sure it cannot get back at them. Now we hear from an eye witness that Antifa thugs were at the front of the group tossing flares at cops. I wonder if anyone in the media is interested in pursuing this type of thing.
HELLZ no.. Any such talk would quickly be squelched, as “Faux news”, or “Conspiracy theory speculation”..
The Democrats and Republicans In Name Only should be removed from office, as they are communists.
When the Democrats pull these stunts, it always comes back to damage themselves. Both Joe and Hunter’s past will soon be under scrutiny and it isn’t going to be pretty.
AND pray, who the hell you anticipate, DOING that scrutiny??
The left does not investigate their own.
Wish I could say I’m calm and collected these days. I’m hearing rumors of possible upheaval ahead. I don’t want to say what specifically because I don’t want to aid the demon-party. I fear we’re at a tipping point… literally. May God have mercy. Ps. 43-44. (esp the NASB)
Yesterday’s events was a False Flag. The actors involved we’re operatives who received orders to make entry and cause havoc. This false flag was successful. I’m saddened to comment that our Republic & Patriots have been betrayed on a level
that was unimaginable. Everyone is suspect now regardless their political affiliation. No gray area, no middle, Right or Left, Good or Evil. What a shame.
Absolute BS from, the Democrats — as usual.
They quoted Trumpka, guess they think the murder of that truck driver in W. Virginia is totally forgotten. Just mentioning his name let’s me know that the next four years will drag America down to the violent years Trumpka ruled his Union. All the names of the vile politicians, who must be truly stupid, or maybe all just owned by Soros, or the Marxist, or Chinese, must think they are home free, but no one believes the crowd wasn’t doing a Smollett, or letting loose their anti-fascist fascist in disguise to infiltrate the crowd. Where were these supposed guardians of peace when their trained arsonists destroyed and attacked….they were quietly encouraging the violence….. If there are any honest, for America democrats out there, they need to corral the fools who are pushing the 25th Amendment. They need to step up.
IF THEY WERE honest americans, they wouldn’t BE PARTY TO THE DNC!
This is so scripted! Anyone with half of a brain can realize that these were NOT Trump supporters. First of all, Trump supporters are smart enough to realize that such actions result in nothing to gain and everything to lose. And, from the testimonies of people that were there, the mood was light and almost festive; a fun time. If you watch the videos closely, you can pick out the instigators and realize that their actions were totally uncharacteristic of the typical Trump rally attendees even to the point of taking selfies at one of the office desks with a leg propped on the desk. There was chatter on the net saying that Antifa was going to embed themselves in the group wearing the proper Trump clothing. But will there be an investigation to find out who is behind this? Not from the Democrats! Who needs evidence when it is so easy to implicate Trump, impeach him without a trial or invoke the 25th amendment with only 13 days left. That way they will not have to worry about him in 2024 or ever. If Pence or McConnell go along with this, the Republicans will never have to worry about getting elected again and continue their typical role as sheep.
BUT the thing to me is, WHY SHOULD WE worry about “more to lose”?? IF WE DON’T resist now, there won’t be anything left to fight for.
So, when are they going to go after Harris? Kamala Harris called riots ‘a movement’ last summer, Said ‘they should not’ stop, as BLM and AntiFa rioted, burned and looted in a dozen cities across the country for WEEKS.
If democrats think Wednesday was a riot, just wait till they try to remove him.
PART Of me, hopes to god, h stays there, and refuses to leave. BUT part of me fears, he will jsut go ‘quietly’ into the night’ leaving us all…
Trump did NOT incite violence. I also condemn violence.
The Democrats DID falsify the election with bogus ballots and rigged machines. I condemn this election fraud.
The congress could have and should have rejected the false election results. I condemn each one who cooperated with this criminal action.
The demonstrators had every right to object but the rioters should be in prison.
The effort to demand and obtain a fair election has failed. Biden is NOT the president-elect and all presence otherwise is additional fraud and dishonesty.
I do not and will not accept Biden as anything other than the evil person that he is; with zero authority or credibility.
BUT when every other avenue, to try and get justice, has been effectively STOLEN, from we the people, WHY SHOULDN’T they have gotten up in arms, and in the faces of congress, like they did>>
I, for one, am glad that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, et al. didn’t “condemn violence.” Patriots are willing to lay down their lives for freedom. Cowards and idiots “condemn violence” when the alternative is slavery.
And it seems like the ENTIRE GOP are a bunch of spineless cowards.. BUT then again, we’ve known they are, for years.
“….to stop Congress from certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over Trump in November’s election.”
They may very well certify Biden as president but you cannot certify a “win” that never happened.
The only good news today is that I can now tell my Red Diaper mother-in-law that she voted for whatever happens to her in her nursing home……so shaddap already!
IT IS those dumbocrats that should be removed. THEY are in their illegally and they know it.
By the same standard Maxine Waters should have been tossed out of office for inciting violence against any one associated with Trump from the very beginning. The enablers of the summer of ‘peaceful’ protests has now turned on them and suddenly they are indignant with a faux self righteousness.
You should know by now, DEMONRATS are never, ever held to the same standard, we conservatives always get held to.
Trump supporters were set up. That so called mob,most of the supporters left when they saw that it was not their group, the hot heads kept going, it was planned for their pictures to shown. It was t o further disgrade Trumps Presidential career. They want him out and end any further career.
It’s too bad that the Republicans throw him to the wolfs. Their day will come. I can see why Texas it planning to leave the US.
Times like this, i wish i had more money, SO I COULD MOVE To texas.