Congress approves a new impeachment of Trump after the assault on the Capitol

The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved the opening of a new impeachment trial against outgoing President Donald Trump, this time on charges of "inciting insurrection" for last week's assault on the Capitol.

Trump thus becomes the only president in U.S. history to be politically tried twice.

Wednesday's vote ended with 231 votes in favor and 197 against, with ten Republican legislators joining the entire Democratic bench.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, said Wednesday that Donald Trump "should leave" because he is "a clear and present danger" to the country, in the debate before the vote on a new impeachment trial against the president, accused of "inciting insurrection.

"We know that the president of the United States incited this insurrection, this armed rebellion against our common country. He must go. It is a clear and present danger for the nation we all love," Pelosi said in the plenary session of the Lower House.

For his part, several Republican legislators have opposed the measure by assuring that it went against the calls for unity in the difficult times the country is going through.

"This is not the way to go if we want to regain unity. It is time to seek healing. Let's stop this impeachment," replied Jeff van Drew, Republican legislator from New Jersey.
The United States is experiencing unprecedented political tension recently after last week's violent assault on the Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters, which left five dead.

The outgoing president criticized the impeachment against him as "absolutely ridiculous" and "a continuation of the biggest witch-hunt in the history of politics.

All of this comes less than a week before the formal handover ceremony, scheduled for January 20, in which Democrat Joe Biden will assume the presidency.

Authorities have already made a huge police deployment in Washington, with more than 10,000 troops, and erected fences around the Capitol, on whose steps the inauguration ceremony will take place, to avoid the scenes of last Wednesday's chaotic journey around the world.