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Second Serving Paseo Herencia Thursday January 14, 2021 T: 582-7800 www.arubatoday.com facebook.com/arubatoday instagram.com/arubatoday Page 9 Aruba’s ONLY English newspaper SECOND SERVING House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., displays the signed article of impeachment against President Donald Trump in an engrossment ceremony before transmission to the Senate for trial on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. Associated Press Page 2 A2 THURSDAY 14 JANUARY 2021 UP FRONT Trump impeached after Capitol riot in historic second charge By LISA MASCARO, Democrat Joe Biden's in- MARY CLARE JALONICK, auguration Jan. 20. JONATHAN LEMIRE and Trump is the only U.S. ALAN FRAM president to be twice im- Associated Press peached. It was the most WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi- bipartisan presidential im- dent Donald Trump was im- peachment in modern peached by the U.S. House times, more so than against for a historic second time Bill Clinton in 1998. Wednesday, charged with The Capitol insurrection "incitement of insurrection" stunned and angered law- over the deadly mob siege makers, who were sent of the Capitol in a swift and scrambling for safety as the stunning collapse of his fi- mob descended, and it re- nal days in office. vealed the fragility of the With the Capitol secured nation's history of peace- by armed National Guard ful transfers of power. The troops inside and out, the riot also forced a reckoning House voted 232-197 to among some Republicans, impeach Trump. The pro- who have stood by Trump In this image from video, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks as the Senate ceedings moved at light- throughout his presidency reconvenes after protesters stormed into the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. ning speed, with lawmak- and largely allowed him Associated Press ers voting just one week to spread false attacks Holed up at the White said, his first condemnation who demanded anonym- after violent pro-Trump against the integrity of the House, watching the pro- of the attack. He appealed ity to describe McConnell's loyalists stormed the U.S. 2020 election. ceedings on TV, Trump lat- for unity "to move forward" conversations. Capitol, egged on by the House Speaker Nancy Pe- er released a video state- and said, "Mob violence Unlike his first time, Trump president's calls for them to losi invoked Abraham Lin- ment in which he made goes against everything I faces this impeachment as "fight like hell" against the coln and the Bible, implor- no mention at all of the im- believe in and everything a weakened leader, hav- election results. ing lawmakers to uphold peachment but appealed our movement stands for. ing lost his own reelection Ten Republicans fled their oath to defend the to his supporters to refrain ... No true supporter of as well as the Senate Re- Trump, joining Democrats Constitution from all ene- from any further violence mine could ever disrespect publican majority. who said he needed to mies, foreign "and domes- or disruption of Biden's in- law enforcement." Even Trump ally Kevin Mc- be held accountable and tic." auguration. Trump was first impeached Carthy, the House Republi- warned ominously of a She said of Trump: "He must "Like all of you, I was by the House in 2019 over can leader, shifted his posi- "clear and present danger" go, he is a clear and pres- shocked and deeply sad- his dealings with Ukraine, tion and said Wednesday if Congress should leave ent danger to the nation dened by the calamity at but the Senate voted in the president bears respon- him unchecked before that we all love." the Capitol last week," he 2020 acquit. He is the first sibility for the horrifying day president to be impeached at the Capitol. twice. None has been con- In making a case for the victed by the Senate, but "high crimes and misde- Republicans said Wednes- meanors" demanded in day that could change in the Constitution, the four- the rapidly shifting political page impeachment reso- environment as officehold- lution approved Wednes- ers, donors, big business day relies on Trump's own and others peel away from incendiary rhetoric and the defeated president. the falsehoods he spread The soonest Republican about Biden's election vic- Senate leader Mitch Mc- tory, including at a rally Connell would start an im- near the White House on peachment trial is next the day of the Jan. 6 at- Tuesday, the day before tack on the Capitol. Trump is already set to A Capitol Police officer leave the White House, Mc- died from injuries suffered Connell's office said. The in the riot, and police shot legislation is also intended and killed a woman dur- to prevent Trump from ever ing the siege. Three other running again. people died in what au- McConnell believes Trump thorities said were medical committed impeachable emergencies. The riot de- offenses and considers the layed the tally of Electoral Democrats' impeachment College votes that was the drive an opportunity to last step in finalizing Biden's reduce the divisive, cha- victory. otic president's hold on the Ten Republican lawmak- GOP, a Republican strat- ers, including third-rank- egist told The Associated ing House GOP leader Press on Wednesday. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, McConnell told major do- voted to impeach Trump, nors over the weekend cleaving the Republican that he was through with leadership, and the party Trump, said the strategist, itself. q A3 U.S. NEWS THURSDAY 14 JANUARY 2021 Housing advocates call on Biden to extend eviction ban By MICHAEL CASEY landlords who need those Associated Press funds,” she continued. “The BOSTON (AP) — Housing ad- eviction moratorium has vocates around the coun- to be extended in order to try staked out courthouses continue to create protec- and held rallies Wednes- tion for tenants while states day, calling on the incom- and localities work to get ing Biden administration emergency rental assis- to extend and strengthen tance out to tenants who the current federal ban on need it most.” evictions. The organizers behind Tues- President Donald Trump’s day’s protests, Right To directive, implemented in The City Alliance, also said September by the U.S. Cen- Congress needs to move ters for Disease Control and to cancel any rent or mort- Prevention, was extended gage debt related to the until the end of January. pandemic. Along with a Given the pandemic is still rally and march in Boston, ongoing, advocates argue protesters built a living room tenants should have pro- in front of the CDC head- tections for the next sev- quarters in Atlanta and eral months and that the a mariachi band played ban should be expanded Tenants’ rights advocates demonstrate in front of the Edward W. Brooke Courthouse, Wednesday, outside the home of a Los beyond only tenants who Jan. 13, 2021, in Boston. The protest was part of a national day of action calling on the incoming Angeles County Board of cannot pay their rent. Biden administration to extend the eviction moratorium initiated in response to the Covid-19 Supervisors member. pandemic. “Today, was an opportuni- Associated Press “Millions of families, most ty to stand in solidarity with of them people of col- the people,” said Alan Tan- circled the housing court, expired, the federal ban is “We’re calling on Presi- or who are also frontline ner, a minister at St. Luke’s honking their horns. the only remaining protec- dent-elect Biden on his first workers, are living in fear Christian AME Zion Church “We need regulation and tion preventing the more day, his first hour to sign a of ending up on the street who spoke at a rally in Bos- legislation that is going to than 23 million renters from new executive order imple- month to month even as ton, one of 17 on Wednes- prevent evictions,” he said. being evicted. menting a new extended this pandemic continues day in 14 states. “We need an extension of Expectations are high that strengthened enforced to kill us,” Kamau Walton, Several dozen tenants, ad- the moratorium. We need one of the first things Joe eviction moratorium for the senior organizer for com- vocates and small landlords something more strict and Biden does when taking of- duration of the pandemic,” munications with the Right gathered outside a hous- stern than even than the fice will be extending that Diane Yentel, president of To The City Alliance, said in ing court in Boston, chant- eviction ban, something CDC eviction order. Advo- the National Low-Income a statement. “This isn’t just ing “Housing is the Cure” that is not temporary and cates are also pressing him Housing Coalition, said. about housing, this is about and holding signs including will last through the dura- to include tens of billions of “When he comes into of- protecting public health.” “Eviction Free Zone” and tion of the pandemic.” dollars in rental assistance fice, the current federal Biden has repeatedly talk- “Ban Utility Shutoffs.” They Bans on eviction were used in the next coronavirus relief eviction moratorium is set ed about wanting to ex- marched to the nearby early on in the pandemic bill. That would be on top of to expire 11 days later. It is tend the moratorium until John F. Kennedy Federal by states and cities to keep the $25 billion approved in literally impossible for the the end of the pandemic. Building to call on federal tenants housed and and the $900 billion coronavirus $25 billion of emergency Details from his transition action to address evictions. avoid a spike in homeless- relief bill passed by Con- rental assistance to get team are expected in the About a dozen cars also ness.
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