(Washington Observatory) What will happen to Trump's impeachment of Washington's political "territory" again?

　　China News Service, Washington, January 13th, title: What will happen to the political "territory" of Washington when Trump is impeached again?

　　China News Agency reporter Sha Hanting

　　On the 13th local time, as the US House of Representatives voted to pass the "sedition" impeachment clause, US President Trump was impeached again at the end of his term of office for 7 days.

He also became the first president in American history to be impeached twice.

　　This impeachment is only more than a year since the last impeachment.

The last time the impeachment was due to the request of the Ukrainian president to investigate his opponent Biden, this time it was because of inciting supporters to rebel.

　　Compared to the three-month investigation and evidence collection of the last impeachment, it only took one week from the incident to the vote on the impeachment.

Another difference is that this time 10 Republican congressmen joined the Democratic camp to vote for impeachment, while the last time the Republican congressmen voted for impeachment, there were no supporters.

On January 6, local time, the joint meeting of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to confirm the results of the Electoral College vote was interrupted because supporters of the current President Trump broke into the Capitol and caused a large-scale riot.

The picture shows the police holding a gun in a standoff with Trump supporters in the US House of Representatives.

　　In the debate in the House of Representatives before the vote that day, Speaker of the House of Representatives Pelosi stated that Trump poses a “clear and realistic threat” to the United States.

Cheney, the No. 3 Republican in the House of Representatives who supported impeachment, also stated that "it was the President of the United States who called and assembled these thugs and ignited the flames of this attack."

　　A week ago, when the Congress was counting the electoral votes in the presidential election, Trump supporters violently stormed the Congress, killing at least five people.

Earlier on the day of the incident, Trump called on his supporters to "fight hard" in a speech to change the outcome of the election.

　　Regarding the “rush to launch impeachment” accused by Republicans, Democrats believe that the incident was basically presented through live television and Twitter before and after the incident, without investigation and evidence collection.

The necessity of impeachment at the last moments of Trump's term lies in the "dangerous nature" of Trump's actions and the need to prevent him from running for president again.

　　Trump, who has been "banned" by multiple social media platforms such as Twitter, condemned the violence through a video speech on Fox TV, saying that those who took violent actions were "not my true supporters."

Regarding his impeachment again, Trump called it "the continuation of the biggest "witch hunt" in political history."

　　Although Trump did not clearly "show weakness" in his recent speeches, it can be seen from the critical attitudes of many Republican lawmakers and the resignations of senior White House officials that Trump no longer has the full support of Republicans. .

Data map: US President Trump.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Chen Mengtong

　　According to regulations, after the House of Representatives voted to pass the impeachment clause, the Senate will hear the impeachment case next.

Currently, the Senate is in recess.

The current majority leader of the Senate and Republican McConnell said on the 13th that there will be no early resumption of the meeting.

According to the plan, the Senate will resume on the 19th and Biden will take office on the 20th.

According to the timetable, the Senate's trial of Trump's impeachment will be conducted after Biden takes office. This will also be the first impeachment trial of a former president in American history.

　　According to the US Constitution, in the voting after the Senate trial, if more than two-thirds of the members believe that the impeachment clause is established, the president will be removed from office, otherwise he will be acquitted.

In the new Senate, Democrats and Republicans each hold 50 seats, so Democrats need at least 17 votes from Republicans to convict Trump.

　　At present, two Republican members of the Senate have stated that Trump should “leave office as soon as possible,” but the vast majority of members have not expressed their views on the impeachment of Trump while condemning the violent attack on Congress.

US media believe that these Republican lawmakers are carefully weighing the political risks of the incident.

　　According to a report from the New York Times on the 12th, Senate Republican leader McConnell believed that Trump’s actions were “impeachable” and he “recognized” the Democratic Party’s impeachment.

McConnell wrote to Republicans on the 13th that he has not yet decided how to vote.

　　"Washington Post" analysis believes that McConnell will undoubtedly be the key figure in this impeachment.

If he decides to support impeachment, he is bound to bring the 17 Republicans required by the Democratic Party, which means that Trump may become the first president in American history to be convicted by the Senate.

Data map: Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Sha Hanting

　　The US media believes that no matter how the impeachment incident develops in the future, it is bound to have an adverse effect on the Republican Party.

Just as many Republican lawmakers believe that it was Trump's post-election remarks about "election fraud" that caused the Republican Party to lose its majority in the Senate, and this violent attack on Congress and subsequent impeachment will undoubtedly make the Republican Party more "divided".

　　On the other hand, the Democrats, although the House Democrats showed unity in the impeachment, Democratic Senator Joe Manchin and others believe that focusing on the impeachment of Trump when Biden is about to take office "will lead to further divisions." , Is not conducive to bridging the scars."

　　Biden issued a statement that night, saying that he hoped that while the Senate was hearing the impeachment case, it would also be able to conduct routine affairs normally, such as approving cabinet appointments and responding to the epidemic.

Biden emphasized that "the country is still deep in the epidemic and economic crisis."

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