- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she believed President Donald Trump should be charged because “every minute” if he remains in office “represents a clear and current danger” to Congress and the country.
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House would be able to prosecute Trump this week if Vice President Mike Pence did not respond to calls from the chamber to call in the 25th amendment.
- “It’s an act of rebellion. It’s an act of hostility,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “And we must have accountability, because without it it will happen again.”
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she believed President Donald Trump should be charged in light of the Capitol siege because “every minute” when he is in office “represents a clear and present danger.”
Ocasio-Cortez appears on a Sunday episode of ‘This Week’ alongside George Stephanopoulos, anchor of ABC News, where she says she believes accusations should be scheduled for the president.
“Our top priority is to remove Donald Trump as President of the United States,” Ocasio-Cortez said Sunday. “Every minute and every hour he is in office represents a clear and present danger, not just to the US Congress, but honestly to the country.”
House President Nancy Pelosi wrote in a letter acquired by CNN that prosecution proceedings could begin as early as this week if Vice President Mike Pence does not respond to calls for the 25th Amendment, which would allow the Vice President and some of Trump’s cabinet to oust the president.
In addition to removing the president, Ocasio-Cortez said the House was also considering Trump’s ‘overall obstacle’ to ‘running again and again’, and to prevent him from ‘forgiving himself of the charges against him’. is’, she said. said during the interview.
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Some GOP lawmakers have written a letter to President-elect Joe Biden urging him to formally request that Pelosi and the House stop their pursuit of Trump’s accusation a second time “in the spirit of healing and fidelity to our Constitution. “
The New York congressman said the ‘healing process’ does not have to be a possible accusation, but an ‘accountability’.
“We need to understand that what happened Wednesday was an uprising against the United States,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “This is what Donald J. Trump was involved in, and this is what the people in the Capitol were involved in. So when we talk about healing, the process of healing is separate and in fact requires accountability.”
“So if we allow impunity for rebellion against the United States – without liability,” then we invite it again. That’s how serious it is, ‘she said. “Maybe my colleagues were not in that room, maybe my colleagues were not fully at the events on Wednesday, but we almost died at half the house on Wednesday.”
Ocasio-Cortez said if another head of state ordered an attack on Congress, lawmakers would not allow it to go unanswered, and therefore Wednesday’s siege of the Capitol should not be treated that way.
“It’s an act of rebellion. It’s an act of hostility,” she said. “And we must have accountability, because without it it will happen again.”
—This Week (@ThisWeekABC) 10 January 2021