Newsman: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump. She then threatened impeachment proceedings if he does not. But the Vice President still did not respond. Nancy Pelosi tweeted, Vice president not returning her phone call.
“I join the Senate Democratic leader is calling on the vice president to remove this president by immediately invoking the 25th amendment,” Pelosi said during a press conference on Thursday. “If the vice president and cabinet do not act, Congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment.”
During her press conference, Pelosi said Trump is “a very dangerous person who should not continue in office.”
“By inciting sedition as he did yesterday, he must be removed from office. While there are only 13 days left, any day could be a horror show for America,” Pelosi said.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on Thursday that he and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., tried but were unsuccessful in reaching Vice President Pence to discuss exercising the Constitutional provision for removing the president from office.
Schumer discussed the issue during a press conference in which he argued cabinet members should use the 25th Amendment in response to Wednesday’s riots at the U.S. Capitol.
“If the vice president and the Cabinet won’t invoke the 25th [Amendment], Congress should come back in session immediately and impeach the president,” he said at a press conference in New York City. “Oh, and Speaker Pelosi and I tried to call the vice president this morning to tell him to do this. They kept us on hold for 25 minutes and then said the vice president wouldn’t come on the phone — so we are making this call public.”
Pelosi’s presser comes as several high-ranking Democrats and some Republicans have called for President Donald Trump’s removal from office, via the invocation of the 25th Amendment or impeachment.
One Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger publicly called on Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment. On Twitter, Kinzinger said, “It’s time to invoke the 25th Amendment and to end this nightmare.”
Pelosi’s Democratic colleague in the Senate, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, has already called for Trump’s removal from office. In a statement released Thursday, Schumer said that the “quickest and most effective way” would be for Trump’s cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment.
At least a dozen Democrats, along with Schumer and Pelosi, have also called on the vice president to invoke the 25th Amendment.
Pelosi also called Trump “a complete tool of Putin” during the press conference. She added that as long as Trump still sits in the White House, “we are in a very dangerous position.”
