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Explainer: Why Critics Are Calling For Trump’s Impeachment Again, 2 Weeks Before He Steps Down

US President Donald Trump is creating ripples even as he has only two weeks to leave office. And there’s nothing wrong with saying, you know, um, that you’ve recalculated.” Reports suggest that Trump, during the phone call, asked Raffensperger to “find” votes to overturn his defeat, and said “I just want to find 11,780 votes”. The US President took to Twitter, to speak about his phone call claiming, “I spoke to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger yesterday about Fulton County and voter fraud in Georgia. Call for impeachment A vocal critic of the Trump government, New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the outgoing US president’s call pressuring the Georgia secretary of state to overturn his defeat in the state is an offense that merits impeachment. While it sounds almost bizarre to make such a suggestion when the president’s term is over in two months, the move would have a useful byproduct: The Senate could prevent Trump from running again in 2024.” Other experts say that while the US Senate failed to remove him from power after he was impeached by the House of Representatives, it left Trump the opportunity to continue with his actions that are sometimes against the law.

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