Trump pressured to resign or face another impeachment

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The presidency of Donald Trump was on the brink of collapse on Friday, two days after the takeover of the Capitol encouraged by the president in search of reversing his electoral defeat, which left five dead and has shocked the United States and the world.

At the end of his tumultuous term, the Republican president is accused of having undermined democratic institutions by inciting an insurrection and calls are growing for him to leave power early due to hand over to Democrat Joe Biden on January 20.

The Speaker of the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, warned that Congress will act if Trump does not resign, after reporting that he discussed with a senior military chief ways to ensure that the president does not use nuclear codes from the arsenal of the nation.

He said, this morning I spoke with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, to discuss the precautions available to prevent an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike. The situation with this unbalanced president could not be more dangerous. Congress will take action if Trump does not leave office imminently and voluntarily.

The Justice Department announced that it prosecuted 15 people involved in the assault on the Capitol, including a man accused of making homemade bombs. Several suspects were arrested, including a man who had 11 Molotov cocktails in his truck, and another who invaded Pelosi's office.

The flags of the Capitol, the temple of American democracy, were raised at half-staff on Friday after the death of a policeman during the irruption of the Trumpist mob.

An Air Force veteran and ardent Trump supporter was shot dead by a police officer inside the building and three other Trump supporters perished from medical emergencies.

It was one of the darkest days in our nation's history, Biden deplored Thursday from his stronghold in Wilmington, describing what happened as the culmination of Trump's relentless attack on democracy over the past four years.