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8 Jan, 7 tweets, 2 min read
With VP Pence ruling out the 25th amendment, that leaves the Congress with impeachment as only option to remove Trump.

The first impeachment didn't get a single Republican vote, but already several Republicans have indicated they would vote for one now.
edition.cnn.com/politics/live-…
Pelosi has written to congress to address concerns about Trump's access to the nuclear codes.

She spoke to Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley "to discuss available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities".
edition.cnn.com/politics/live-…
Pelosi suggests the US military will stop the president if he tries to access nuclear codes.

"The situation of this unhinged President could not be more dangerous, and we must do everything that we can to protect the American people from his unbalanced assault on our country".
Trump ally Lindsey Graham is threatening Pelosi with consequences if she launches the impeachment effort today, saying he believes the Senate will reject it.
131 members of congress have already signed up to co-sponsor the draft articles of impeachment, CNN reports, including several committee chairs.

White House Counsel Pat Cipollone is reportedly about to resign. Outside lawyers are being brought in. edition.cnn.com/politics/live-…
Pelosi's statement that she's received assurances from General Milley that the US military would stop Trump if he tried to access the nuclear codes raises a lot of questions.

How would they stop him exactly? Is this an extra-constitutional removal outcome possibility?
Another important question: has this left Europe without a nuclear deterrent for the next 13 days?

British nukes need the US president's permission to launch. That just leaves France.

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9 Jan
#Belgium has had success in turning around its explosion of #COVID19 cases in October, through an unyielding strict lockdown since 2 November.

The effect is clear when comparing to countries which ended 2nd lockdowns early and had wild policy u-turns. newstatesman.com/world/europe/2… Image
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BREAKING: Twitter has permanently banned US President Donald Trump Image
Twitter's statement:
Reactions coming in from Trump's far-right allies in Europe:
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8 Jan
-Now official-

Unless Trump resigns today, the House of Representatives will move forward with two tracks to remove the president from office:

1⃣Impeachment
2⃣A Congressional committee that can invoke the 25th without involving the cabinet.

Speaker statement: Image
For the 1st track, it's already clear there are enough House votes to impeach - but unknown if there's enough Senate votes to convict.

For the 2nd track, both the Senate and cabinet could be bypassed, but it would require the cooperation of Vice President Mike Pence.
The odds of either of these tracks resulting in Trump's removal are still low.

For 1st, the Senate is the block. For 2nd, Pence is the block.

Dems say at least starting this process would enable Pence or Senate to act quickly if Trump does something dangerous in next 12 days.
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8 Jan
Trump's forced statement read out in the pre-recorded video last night contained many untruths.

One of them was that he immediately sent in the national guard to stop the rioting. In fact he denied multiple requests to send the guards. forbes.com/sites/andrewso…
Those denials weren't a spur-of-the-moment decision.

Leaving the Capitol unprotected appears to have been a premeditated policy - even as the internet was flooded with messages from Trump supporters saying they intended to come armed and storm congress.
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The only reason the national guard was ever deployed at all is because the Secretary of Defence issued a bypass order overruling Trump's loyalists at the Pentagon.
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8 Jan
EU agrees to buy 300 million more doses of #PfizerVaccine, bringing the total order to 600 million.

Announcing the purchase, President @vonderleyen says the EU's vaccine *purchasing* program has been a success, disputing reports the EU didn't order enough. Image
By the end of 2020 the Commission had pre-ordered 2 billion vaccine doses (for 450 million people), across a portfolio of 6 vaccines.

Until this week Pfizer (300m doses ordered in 2020) was the only one approved. Moderna (80m ordered) was approved by @EMA_News Tuesday.
There's been griping (largely by German media and politicians prepping for 2021 election) that the problems in the 1st week of vaccination campaigns in EU countries is the fault of the EU's purchasing programme.

But the problem has been production/distribution, not supply.
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7 Jan
CNN reports that this State Department official has been fired by the White House after tweeting this last night.
Now Trump has fired the acting US Homeland Security Secretary after he tweeted last night that those engaged in rioting should be held accountable.
cnbc.com/2021/01/07/tru…
This is the tweet Wolf put out before the White House withdrew his name as Homeland Security chief.

It seems people working for Trump have 3 options today: Keep quiet, resign, or be fired.
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