The House passed a resolution calling on Pence and Trump’s Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove the president from power, but the vice president said in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that he would not do so.
A number of Republican senators have signaled an openness to convicting the president following a Senate trial.
McConnell is said to be furious with Trump and believes he committed impeachable offenses, The New York Times reported. And Axios later reported that McConnell might vote to convict the president, a remarkable development that would end years of the two men moving in lockstep.
“The House, if they come together and have a process, I will definitely consider whatever articles they might move,” Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska told “CBS This Morning” in an interview.
“I believe the president has disregarded his oath of office. He swore an oath to the American people to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. He acted against that,” Sasse added. “What he did was wicked.”
Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey said he believed Trump had committed impeachable offenses, and he and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski called on the president to resign from office.
The president, for his part, has shown no remorse over what happened at the Capitol. Speaking to reporters Tuesday after he was barred from every mainstream social-media platform, Trump said his remarks at the rally on January 6 were “totally appropriate” and called the push to impeach him “absolutely ridiculous.”
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