Unlike Donald Trump, US Vice President Mike Pence does intend to attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony. The information was reported on Saturday by several media. The announcement comes against a backdrop of deteriorating relations between Mike Pence and Donald Trump, the vice president having confirmed Joe Biden’s victory in the November presidential election on Thursday, in front of the two chambers meeting overnight for a special session after a day of unimaginable violence in Washington.
A crowd of supporters of Donald Trump had invaded the Capitol, interrupting the debates. Five people have died in the violence that the outgoing Republican president is accused of having encouraged by his statements. The President-elect said Friday that Mike Pence is “welcome” at the ceremony, welcoming Mr. Trump’s Twitter announcement of his own absence in a final tweet before his account was closed.
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Joe Biden is scheduled to take office in a reduced format due to the coronavirus pandemic. After the violence of January 6, the outgoing president could find himself as of Monday under the blow of a second impeachment procedure, a development without historical precedent. In power since 2017, Donald Trump has already been targeted in Congress by an infamous impeachment procedure, opened by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, at the end of 2019 on the accusation of having asked a foreign country, Ukraine, to investigate rival Joe Biden. He had been acquitted in the Senate, with a Republican majority, in early 2020.
Nancy Pelosi has vowed to act if the Republican president doesn’t immediately step down. Democratic leaders urged Mike Pence to declare, with a government majority, that Donald Trump was “unfit” to perform his duties, based on the 25e amendment of the Constitution. The vice-president has not spoken publicly on the subject, but the daily The New York Times reported Thursday, citing one of his relatives, that he was not in favor of it because he feared escalating tensions.
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