Pelosi says she backs invoking 25th amendment but impeachment has support in US Congress
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she supports invoking the 25th amendment to remove President Donald Trump but a second impeachment also has support in Congress.
"I like the 25th Amendment because it gets rid of him. He’s out of office. But there’s strong support in the Congress for impeaching the president a second time," the top Democrat told CBS News on Sunday amid calls on the president to resign over incitement of violence in his supporters' protest at the US Capitol on Wednesday.
Vice President Mike Pence and half of Trump's cabinet need to support the measure for the president to be removed.
Pelosi further commented on concerns that Trump may pardon himself before leaving office on January 20.
"He can only pardon himself from federal offenses. He cannot pardon himself from state offenses and that’s where he’s being investigated in the state of New York," she said.
DC Attorney General Karl Racine said there was an "extraordinary dichotomy" in the federal response between Black Lives Matter protests and an attempted "coup d'etat on a lawful presidential election."
"You saw effectively an invitation to come into the Capitol and do what you want, because you happen to be a supporter of Trump," Racine told ABC News. "There's no doubt in my mind that if the protesters were brown, Black, immigrants, you would have seen the president spew out all of his hate and it would have been aggressive, and there would have been a different story told."
There were, meanwhile, reports of clashes between supporters of Trump and counter-protesters, including in San Diego, California.
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