Vice President Mike Pence intends to oppose Democratic and Republican Congressional calls to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove President Trump from office after the violation of the US Capitol.
Fox News confirmed the information with sources inside the vice president’s office.
Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said they had made a call to Pence, asking him to take steps to remove Trump, even though the president has less than two weeks left in office. White House before President-elect Joe Biden opens on January 20.
“We have not yet received a response from the vice president,” said Pelosi and Schumer in a joint statement on Thursday. “The president’s dangerous and seditious acts demand his immediate removal from office.”
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Lawmakers from both major parties have called for Trump’s removal from office, either through the powers of the 25th amendment or a second impeachment – although it is unlikely that Congress will be able to make a second impeachment and trial before January 20.
The 25th Amendment, adopted in 1967, allows an incumbent president to be removed if the vice president and most cabinet members agree that he is no longer able to perform his duties. The vice president would immediately become the interim president.
Schumer asked Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment in an impassioned statement on Thursday morning, citing the president’s incitement to an “insurrection” against the United States.
“This president should not be in office for another day,” said Schumer.
“The quickest and most effective way – can be done today – to remove this president from office would be for the vice president to immediately invoke Amendment 25. If the vice president and the cabinet refuse to stand, Congress must meet again. to accuse the president. “
The White House and other administration officials began to resign on Wednesday morning after Trump dealt with the violent riot that forced lawmakers to hide in offices, safe havens and shelter on the upper porch of the Chamber chamber after get stuck inside.
PENCE ‘ANGRY’ AFTER TRUMP SAYS ‘I DIDN’T HAVE THE COURAGE’ TO TURN TO ELECTION, SAYS INHOFE
Trump waited for about an hour after the crowd broke into the Capitol building, finally asking his supporters to “remain peaceful” in a tweet, although he later praised the violent group.
He went after Pence for refusing to object to the results of the Electoral College – a position that the vice president constitutionally cannot take.
“Mike Pence did not have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones that they were asked to certify in advance,” Trump wrote in a tweet as the vice president was rushed to safety after the building was breached.
“The US demands the truth!” Trump added.
Sen. Jim Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, said he had never seen Pence as “angry” as when the president pressed him to oppose the results.
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“I’ve known Mike Pence forever,” Inhofe told Tulsa World earlier this week. “I’ve never seen Pence as angry as today.”
“I had a long talk with him,” said Inhofe. “He said, ‘After all the things I did for (Trump).'”
At least four people died as a result of the rebellion, that some charge was instigated by Trump’s rhetoric, claiming that he was cheated in the election.
John Roberts and Evie Fordham of Fox News contributed to this story.