Trump's impeachment process opens a new gap in the United States

The second

impeachment

of Donald Trump is gaining strength in Washington and, with it, a new fratricidal division in the United States.

Most Democratic voters believe that the still president should leave the White House immediately for having fueled the violent assault on Wednesday's Congress, according to a poll this Sunday, but only a minority of Republicans agree.

The Democratic Party plans to approve the resolution to start the procedure this week, although it is considering postponing the second phase of it, that is, the impeachment itself in the Senate, for a few months to make room for the new Joe Biden Administration to get going.

This would be the first time that the same president has undergone a second

impeachment

, an extraordinary procedure contemplated in the Constitution to be able to judge and remove a president in the event of treason, bribery or serious misconduct.

It has only been carried out three times, the last one precisely a year ago against Trump.

In the House of Representatives, the procedure seems unstoppable.

The president, Nancy Pelosi, has urged legislators to prepare to "go back to Washington this week" and the draft of the resolution, which on Sunday already had 195 of the 222 congressmen as signatories, is now ready to be presented. Monday.

Democrats still do not have, today, sufficient support among Republicans to condemn Trump and, this time, in addition, the

impeachment

will take place just 10 days after the Republican leaves the White House and Biden takes office.

But the world has seen how the president of the United States called for rebellion against the election results and how, with his incendiary speech, a mob of his followers invaded Congress to boycott the confirmation of the new president.

And the alternative to

impeachment

is not to be held accountable, since the Republican government does not seem willing to depose its leader through the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, designed for disability cases, and there are no signs of resignation.

Leftist Senator Bernie Sanders put it in these words on Friday: “Some people ask: why try and convict a president with only a few days left in office?

The answer is: precedent.

It must be clear that no president, now or in the future, can lead an insurrection against the United States government. "

Joe Biden has spoken with little enthusiasm on

impeachment

, proof of the sensitivity of the matter for a president-elect who has vowed to be the one to forge US reconciliation after years of political and social hostility.

“This is a decision for Congress to make, but they must be ready to get to work at full speed, because when Kamala (Vice President-elect Harris) and I take office, we are going to immediately introduce pieces of legislation to deal with it. virus, with the economy and with growth, "he said on Friday when he appeared before the press to introduce new members of his Cabinet.

And he stressed: "We are going to do our job and Congress can decide how to proceed with theirs."

It is a concern understood from the Capitol.

The veteran Democratic congressman James E. Clyburn, third of the party with more responsibility in the institution, advanced this Sunday that the vote in the House of Representatives - the first phase of the process, where the accusation is raised - would take place this week, probably as soon like Tuesday.

However, he warned that they are not clear whether to automatically send the indictment to the Senate, where the trial itself is taking place, or to allow time, even months, to pass in order to leave some air to the new Democratic Administration.

"Let's give President-elect Biden the 100 days he needs to get his agenda in motion," said Clyburn, who is in charge of party discipline in the lower house (in political jargon he is called

whip

in charge, in Spanish, whip).

A group of Republicans has addressed a letter to the future president asking him to speak with Pelosi and convince her to stop the

impeachment

process

against Trump.

They are seven congressmen, led by Ken Buck of Colorado, who also opposed lawmakers from his party who planned to torpedo Biden's confirmation in Congress through a battery of objections.

In his current letter, dated this Saturday, he warns the incoming president: “A second

impeachment

, just days after the president leaves office, is as unnecessary as it is incendiary.

This

impeachment

will undermine your priority of uniting Americans and would be a further distraction for our nation (...) We respectfully urge you to encourage President Pelosi to put this partisan attempt aside immediately. "

Polls indicate this.

In one of the ABC and Ipsos network published this Sunday, 56% of Americans believe that Trump should leave the White House before January 20, when Biden takes office, and 67% blame the still president for the riots, which they have so far left five dead.

But sensitivity to the issue is divided along perfectly partisan lines: While 94% of Democrats and 58% of independents want Trump out now, only 13% of Republicans agree with it.

What's more, up to 61% of Republicans in this poll believe that the still president did nothing wrong.

So far, two Republican senators have publicly stated that Trump must resign immediately: Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Patrick Toomey of Pennsylvania.

The latter has also warned that the president has committed "offenses subject to

impeachment

" and a third, Ben Sasse, of Nebraska, has been open to considering charges for the trial, that is, the so-called articles of

impeachment

.

However, they are a minority.

Although Trump is more isolated than ever by the priests of the Republican Party and many of those who supported him even until January 6 have distanced themselves after the violence unleashed on Capitol Hill, vote to depose a president of your own party, when You only have 10 days left in office, not a very popular idea.

First, because it means annoying millions of voters and, second, because it is a capital assumption of errors after four years forgiving and justifying everything to an incendiary president, who was acquitted a year ago in the

impeachment

for the pressure on Ukraine to remove dirty laundry of Biden.

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