“Work for the country”: Mike Pence remains loyal to Donald Trump - US Democrats cannot count on US Vice-Presidents
In the impeachment in the US, the Democrats are hoping for Mike Pence. The Vice President and the Cabinet are supposed to remove Donald Trump. But Pence wants to "continue the work for the country".
US Democrats cannot count on Mike Pence to remove Donald Trump from presidency. This met on Monday (January 11th, 2021) for the first time since the riots and the storming of the Capitol in Washington D.C. again with the outgoing President Trump. The conversation in the White House was good, a government spokesman reported, according to the AFP news agency.
After meeting with President: Vice President Mike Pence does not want to depose Trump
Mike Pence and Donald Trump want to continue "their work for the country" until the formal end of the presidency on January 20, 2021. Trump is not considering resigning. The government spokesman confirmed this. After the conversation, Mike Pence also has no plans to apply the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, as the Democrats have called for. This provides that the vice-president and the cabinet can remove the president if he is incapacitated.
The Democrats set Mike Pence a 24-hour deadline within which to apply the amendment. To this end, before the meeting with Trump, they introduced a draft resolution to the House of Representatives to increase the pressure on the Vice President of the USA. The resolution is to be passed on Tuesday (January 12th, 2021), reports the AFP.
Trump and Pence meeting: Democrats set ultimatum and seek impeachment proceedings
If Vice President Mike Pence remains loyal to Donald Trump after the meeting and does not depose him, they want to start impeachment proceedings as soon as possible and have Trump charged with "inciting riot" in the Senate. The chairman of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, emphasized the readiness of the Congress to act on Friday (January 8th, 2021). The reason for the impeachment process is the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Mike Pence had angered Donald Trump by refusing to block formal confirmation of Joe Biden's election victory in the 2020 US election. Trump did not inquire about the vice president's well-being after the riots in the Capitol, reports the AFP, citing an insider. Pence also announced that he would appear as President at Joe Biden's swearing in. (Max Schäfer with AFP)
