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Dems. ready for Trump’s 2nd impeachmen­t today

Move to impeach comes amid continued fury over the storming of US Capitol

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Washington, Jan.

US Democrats on Saturday were readying for an unpreceden­ted second impeachmen­t of Donald Trump as the defiant president showed no signs of stepping down after the deadly violence at the Capitol.

Democrats said impeachmen­t proceeding­s could begin as early as Monday — an extraordin­ary accelerati­on of a process that historical­ly has taken weeks, but one that might not be completed before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn into office on January 20.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned that Democrats will launch the process unless Trump resigns or Vice President Mike Pence invokes the 25th Amendment, where the cabinet removes the president.

“He’s deranged, unhinged and dangerous. He must go,” Pelosi, referring to Trump, tweeted on Friday.

The move to impeach came amid continued fury over the storming of the Capitol on Wednesday by angry Trump supporters, which left five people dead, including a Capitol policeman.

Authoritie­s announced new arrests and charges Saturday over the incursion, including a tattoo-chested man in

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a horned headdress whose image was beamed around the world.

That man, Jacob Anthony Chansley, also known as Jake Angeli, and two others — one of them a newly elected state official from West Virginia — were charged in federal court in connection with the violence, according to the US attorney’s office for the District of Columbia. —

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