What are the latest articles of impeachment against President Trump?

The Millennial Source
5 min readJan 13, 2021

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The article of impeachment introduced into the House on Monday accuses Trump of abuse of power and charges him with “high crimes and misdemeanors.”

On Monday, January 11, for the second time in two years, Democrats in the United States House of Representatives introduced an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump. The article accuses Trump of abuse of power as related to an “incitement of insurrection.”

The House Democrats are responding to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol by Trump supporters and far-right extremists that resulted in one police officer’s death and vast damage to the Congressional offices.

Trump has been accused of goading his supporters into the attack, including through a video posted to social media in which he told the mob that “we love you, you’re very special.” In that video, which was taken down by Twitter and Facebook, Trump tells his supporters to go home, but not until after he reiterates the false claim that the election was stolen from him.

Trump was subsequently locked out of his social media accounts as cries for his removal from office have grown louder. Hundreds of Democrats, as well as business leaders and former Republican officials…

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