In the light of the recent violence by pro Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol Hill on Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday said that if Trump did not resign “immediately,” the House would move to impeach him over his role inciting the mob attack.
In a letter where she appealing Republicans to join the push to force Trump from office, Pelosi reminded the members of the House of former US President Richard Nixon’s resignation amid the Watergate scandal and called Trump’s actions a “horrific assault on our democracy.”
“Today, following the president’s dangerous and seditious acts, Republicans in Congress need to follow that example and call on Trump to depart his office — immediately,” she wrote. “If the president does not leave office imminently and willingly, the Congress will proceed with our action.”
She also added that she was consulting the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley about “preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes.”
A spokesman for Milley, Col. Dave Butler, confirmed that the two had spoken and said the general had “answered her questions regarding the process of nuclear command authority.”
