Representative Kinzinger, R-Ill., Said that Trump should resign or be removed by the 25th Amendment
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y. said he believed that a second impeachment of President Donald Trump should be scheduled and in a separate interview on ABC’s “This Week” program, Illinois Republican MP Adam Kinzinger asked the president to resign or be removed by the 25th Amendment.
“Our top priority is to ensure the removal of Donald Trump as president of the United States,” Ocasio-Cortez told ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos on Sunday. “Every minute and every hour he is in office represents a clear and present danger, not just for the United States Congress, but frankly for the country.”
“We are also talking about the president’s total ban – or rather Donald Trump’s – to run for office again,” she added. “And, in addition, the potential ability to avoid forgiveness of the charges for which he was accused.”
Kinzinger told Stephanopoulos that the president should resign or be removed by the 25th Amendment, but he does not believe that impeachment is “the smart move” at the moment.
“I think it victimizes Donald Trump again and I think there is a time when we are now when Donald Trump is looking very, very bad,” said Kinzinger.
“I’m going to vote in the right way, you know if I’m introduced to it, I just think it’s probably not the smartest move at the moment, but I think it’s going to be out of my hands,” he added.
Many Democrats renewed calls for Trump’s impeachment following his supporters’ onslaught on U.S. Capitol Hill on Wednesday. Some Republicans have also called for the president to be removed by the 25th Amendment and two members of the Trump Cabinet have resigned following the attack.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked members to prepare to return to Washington this week in a letter, a sign that the House could accept and pass the impeachment article to the Senate after it was formally presented on Monday.
A draft impeachment article circulating among House Democrats on Friday would accuse Trump of “inciting insurrection.”
Pennsylvania Republican Senator Pat Toomey told Fox News on Saturday that he thought the president had “committed impeachable crimes”.
In addition, most of the country believes Trump should be removed before President-elect Joe Biden takes office on January 20 and two-thirds hold him responsible for the violent Capitol insurrection, according to an ABC News / Ipsos poll released on Sunday. .
In the new survey, which was conducted by Ipsos in partnership with ABC News using the Ipsos Knowledge Panel, 56% of Americans think that the acting chief commander should be removed from office before the official transfer of power in less than two years. weeks, while 43% say no. Among those who say Trump should not be removed immediately, almost half (45%), however, say his actions this week were wrong.
Some Democrats, including Ocasio-Cortez and Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown also asked the Senate to expel Senators Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., if they do not resign, saying they also played a role in the cause of Wednesday’s violence in Capitol.
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