“One day is too much to have Donald Trump in the White House. In an hour he can destroy this country,” said Democratic congressman Adriano Espaillat.
This is the message that united almost a dozen elected officials summoned by Espaillat in what they called a Community vigil for peace and unity.
At the event, they demanded the immediate removal of the president of the United States from his position, regardless of the fact that his term will culminate in just days with the inauguration of Joe Biden as president on January 20.
One avenue is the disqualification called by the vice president and a majority of the cabinet; and the other, a second impeachment trial in the Lower House approved by the Senate. Further, criminal charges.
According to Espaillat: “He really has to face justice. He was the one who visited this violence that ended in the death of five human beings. He woke up the next day with blood on his hands. He cannot go home alone. without facing justice, because we all lose if this happens. “
For his part, Councilor Mark Levine, said: “It is a threat to the nation, so we come to support the congressmen in this fight and tell them that there is unity among their leaders north of Manhattan.”
With an investigative commission on what happened pending formation, many New Yorkers agree: “What about the people who are working in the White House? They are bad. Why are they there? That is not America.”
And from Washington, the leader of the Democratic party in Congress, Nancy Pelosi, is advancing in the work of the elaboration of the articles through which the impeachment against the President would be carried out.
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