The House of Representatives is expected to vote on Wednesday to impeach Donald Trump in connection with his supporters’ violent siege on the US Capitol, with just a week to go until Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th US president.
The unprecedented move so close to the end of Mr Trump’s term would make him the first president in US history to be impeached twice, and the only one to be charged with so few days left in office.
Impeachment is the process by which the House of Representatives can bring charges against a government official, similar to a grand jury indictment in a criminal court. But it does not result in his automatic ejection from the White House.
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