- President Donald Trump declined requests to resign after being impeached earlier this week.
- Trump was extremely opposed to the idea and banned advisers from mentioning former President Richard Nixon.
- Nixon resigned after the House Judiciary Committee voted to move forward with its impeachment process in 1974.
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President Donald Trump told an adviser never to mention former President Richard Nixon in a furious and swearing speech again, CNN reported, saying in “separate conversations” that mentioning Nixon was prohibited.
With only a few days left of his presidency, Trump became the only president in the history of the United States to be impeached twice after the House of Representatives filed an impeachment article against him on charges of “inciting insurrection”.
The charge is for Trump’s role in inciting an attempted coup on the U.S. Capitol last week, which left five people dead. He had previously been impeached in 2019 on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress during the Ukraine scandal.
After the siege of the Capitol and his second impeachment, he faced requests to resign, as Nixon did.
Trump supporters violated the United States Capitol and clashed with the police on January 6, while Congress was debating challenges to electoral votes before certifying Biden’s election. They ransacked offices, stole items and vandalized property.
Republican sources told Insider Darren Samuelsohn and Tom LoBianco that Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell is seriously considering a vote to condemn Trump in an impeachment trial. While the trial is not expected to begin until Trump’s term ends, the change could lead him to become the first former president barred from holding a federally elected post.
White House officials and cabinet officials have since abandoned Trump and resigned. Some allies asked Trump to step down as Nixon before the Senate impeachment trial. A proposal the president is strongly opposed to, as reported by CNN, also writing that “Trump told people he couldn’t count on Vice President Mike Pence to forgive him like Gerald Ford did with Nixon, anyway.”
Nixon resigned in 1974 after the House Judiciary Committee voted to initiate the impeachment process against him after he refused to deliver recorded tapes in 1973 that federal prosecutors believed to link him to the 1972 invasion at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Watergate complex. President Gerald Ford, Nixon’s vice president, forgave the former president.