Democrats launch 2-pronged attack in Congress to oust Trump

By Arul Louis New York, Jan 12 : Democrats launched on Monday a two-pronged attack on US President Donald Trump to remove him from office by starting the process of impeachment and by introducing a resolution in the House of Representatives demanding that Vice President Mike Pence oust him by exercising his Constitutional authority.
Republicans blocked a resolution demanding that Pence and the cabinet remove Trump from office and the Democrats responded by introducing the article of impeachment against the President for his alleged role in the storming of Congress by his supporters last week that left a police officer and four others dead.
“The President’s threat to America is urgent, and so too will be our action,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday.
Pelosi had given Pence a 24-hour ultimatum on Sunday to act on the Constitution’s 25th Amendment that empowers him and a majority of the cabinet to remove Trump by declaring him “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office”.
At the brief session of the House of Representatives on Monday, the resolution needed to be accepted unanimously but a Republican objected necessitating a formal vote, which could take place as early as Tuesday.
Meanwhile, acting on the ultimatum, Democrats retaliated by introducing an article of impeachment charging Trump with “inciting violence against the government of the United States” through his actions mobilising his supporters against the election of Joe Biden as President and Kamala Harris as Vice President and asking them to go to Congress.