House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
of California said Friday that the House would move to impeach President Donald
Trump over his role in inciting a violent mob attack on the Capitol if he did not resign “immediately,” appealing to
Republicans to join the push to force him from office.
In a letter to members of the House, the speaker invoked the resignation
of Richard Nixon amid the Watergate scandal, when Republicans prevailed upon
the president to resign and avoid the ignominy of an impeachment, calling
Trump’s actions a “horrific assault on our democracy.”
“Today, following
the president’s dangerous and seditious acts, Republicans in Congress need to
follow that example and call on Trump to depart his office — immediately,” she
wrote. “If the president does not leave office imminently and willingly, the
Congress will proceed with our action.”
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