Pence rejects calls for him to remove Trump from office under the 25th Amendment
Source: Washington Post
Vice President Pence is rejecting the calls for him to remove President Trump from office under the 25th Amendment. In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) late Tuesday, Pence said he did not yield to pressure last week “to exert power beyond my constitutional authority to determine the outcome of the election, and I will not now yield to efforts in the House of Representatives to play political games at a time so serious in the life of our Nation.”
His letter came hours before the House was scheduled to vote on whether to officially call on him to declare Trump unfit for office and wrest control.
Separately, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), No. 3 Republican in the House, said Tuesday that she will vote to impeach Trump, saying there has “never been a greater betrayal” by a president to his office and his oath to the Constitution days after a pro-Trump mob attacked the Capitol.
Trump called the effort by House Democrats to impeach him for a second time a “witch hunt” and offered no regrets for inciting the mob attack on the Capitol last week as he emerged from seclusion Tuesday to travel to Alamo, Tex., to tour a section of the border wall.
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