Most Americans Want Immediate Removal of Unfit Trump
A new poll has shown that a majority of Americans want outgoing US President Donald Trump removed from office immediately.
According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted after the US Capitol violence incited by Trump, fifty-seven percent of Americans want the Republican president to be immediately removed.
Trump, who encouraged a protest this week in Washington, DC that escalated into a deadly riot inside the US Capitol, ends his tern of January 20.
However, the majority of Americans who took part in the poll said they wanted Trump to leave office immediately.
Thirty percent of those interviewed said Trump should be removed using provisions in the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution, which allows the Vice President and Cabinet to remove the president if he is unfit to carry out his duties.
Another 27 percent said lawmakers should either impeach and remove Trump from office, or pressure him to simply resign.
Trump, who lost the 2020 US presidential election to Democrat President-elect Joe Biden by about seven million votes, called on his supporters on Wednesday to march on Congress, telling them at a rally that “you will never take back our country with weakness.”
About one-tenth of those participating in the poll said they supported the the rioters and regarded them as “concerned citizens”.
A very small minority, five percent, called the rioters “patriots.”
However, the vast majority, seventy-nine percent, which included both Republicans and Trump voters, described the January 6 rioters as either “criminals” or “fools.”
Seven out of 10 of the participants who had voted for Trump on November 3 were opposed to Trump’s actions in the run-up to Wednesday’s assault on on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
The national public opinion poll was conducted on Thursday and Friday online throughout the United States and gathered responses from 1,005 American adults, including 339 who said they voted for Trump. The results have a credibility interval, a measure of precision, of 4 percentage points.
The riot, in which a police officer and four others died, has been widely condemned by both US and world leaders.
Source: Press TV
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