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In response to the riots in Washington, after the top Democrat in the US Senate, the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has called for the immediate removal of President Donald Trump.

Pelosi said in Washington on Thursday that she is calling on incumbent US Vice President Mike Pence to seek impeachment based on Amendment 25 of the US Constitution.

Trump is dangerous and should no longer remain in office.

"This is urgent."

In addition to regular impeachment proceedings, as was also pursued by Robert Mueller during the Russian investigation against Trump, there is a faster way to remove a US president from office: Amendment 25 of the constitution allows the president to be “incapable of the rights and to exercise duties of office ”.

Such a declaration must be made by the Vice-President and a majority of key cabinet members and then reported to Congress.

If the President objects, the Senate and House of Representatives must approve the impeachment with a two-thirds majority.

It would take large sections of the Republican Party in Congress to achieve these majorities.

US media reported on Wednesday evening (local time) that individual cabinet members had discussed an Article 25 waiver in view of the riots by Trump supporters.

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President-elect Joe Biden described the violent storm of the Capitol as "one of the darkest days in the history" of the United States.

The attackers were not demonstrators, but "domestic terrorists," said Biden on Thursday in Wilmington, Delaware.

“It's that simple,” emphasized Biden.

The “mob” tried to “silence” the votes of nearly 160 million Americans who voted despite the pandemic, Biden said.

It was an "unprecedented attack on our democracy," he said.

A mob of hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in the US capital Washington on Wednesday in an unprecedented escalation of violence.

At the seat of Congress, the results of the US presidential election - in which the Republican Donald Trump clearly lost to the Democrat Biden - should be confirmed.

Four people died, some under unknown circumstances, and dozen were arrested.

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