Pence rejects calls to oust defiant Trump, but impeachment looms
Bolstered by support from his deputy Mike Pence who opposed ousting the US president, Donald Trump denied responsibility yesterday for an assault on Congress by his supporters but now faces an all-but-certain second impeachment effort.
With Republican backing for Trump eroding in the final days of his presidency, Pence served as an anchor, ruling out calls by Democrats to invoke the 25th Amendment in order to remove the president from office.
“I do not believe that such a course of action is in the best interest of our nation,” Pence wrote in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shortly before the House was set to vote on a measure calling on Pence to use the amendment to strip Trump of power.
With that effort dead, Pelosi quickly announced her managers for the impeachment debat...