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Trump impeachment continues to hold world's attention

Published Jan 28, 2021 11:42 pm
The impeachment of former United States President Donald Trump continues to hold the attention of people around the world, although his  term ended last January 20 when  new President Joseph Biden took his oath of office after winning over Trump in the presidential election of  November 3. Last  Monday, a delegation of House Democrats walked from the House of Representatives wing of the US Capitol  across the Rotunda at the center of the building,  to the Senate side, to deliver  the House impeachment  charge  of “incitement of insurrection” against Trump. The House had voted to impeach Trump last February  3 on the single charge  of “incitement of insurrection” for Trump’s role in whipping up his  supporters on January 6, the day they stormed the Capitol, occupied the House and  Senate session halls, caused some damage  to the premises, and threatened  the lives of lawmakers, including Vice President and Senate President  Mike Pence, who had refused to join in their call to  overturn  the Electoral College vote that had proclaimed Biden. The House  voted   to impeach on January 13  – the second time in his administration—with all Democrats in the House joined by 10 Republicans.  After Biden took office on January 30,  it  was agreed that the Senate begin trials on the impeachment  charge in the week of February 8. Under the US Constitution,  if the Senate convicts an impeached official, it would then hold another vote to  remove him from office. But Trump has been out of office  since January 20, so there would be no call for such a vote. In some past impeachment cases,  the Senate also voted  to disqualify the official  from holding any federal office in the future. This  could  be  the reason some officials continue to press the impeachment of Trump. He has warned that will seek reelection in 2024. And he seems to have retained his loyal following of rabid supporters. Very likely, Trump will not be convicted in the coming Senate trial., Alone among  American presidents, Trump has not had much support from leaders of other nations around  the world.  He had repeatedly told America’s allies in Western Europe to shoulder  their share of maintaining  their  defense  alliance.  He scrapped many economic agreements with China.  He banned immigration from Muslim nations. He closed the US borders to immigrants from Central and South America. He pulled out the US from the Paris Climate Agreement  in 2018. More recently he withdrew US support from the World Health Organization even as it battled the COVID-19 pandemic. Our own President Duterte  declared a special alliance among  the Philippines, China, and Russia at the start of his term. He threatened to put an end to the long period of special US-Philippine relations which, fortunately, has not come about. The Trump administration has been called an aberration, so different  it has been from all other US administrations.  Despite  its loss in the last presidential election, it is  a face of the US that could surface again at  any time.

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