The United States Democrats on Monday formally introduced an article of impeachment against outgoing President Donald Trump, charging him with “incitement to insurrection” over his role in inciting the violence at the Capitol last week, The Guardian reported.
The first attempt to impeach Trump was made once by the Democrat-controlled House in December 2019 for pressuring the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to dig up political dirt on Biden. He was, however, acquitted by the Senate, where the Republican Party had the majority.
House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from the top post, according to BBC. In the resolution, she asked Pence to declare to a “horrified nation” that Trump was “unable to successfully discharge the duties and powers of his office”.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said that the Democrats were planning to vote on the article of impeachment in two…