By Donald Trump, the president of the United States of America is currently facing renewed push for his impeachment by the Democrats.
The new push comes after Trump incited his supporters to storm the US Capitol on Wednesday as legislators met to certify the election victory of President-elect Joe Biden.
Trump urged the crowd to march to the US Capitol on claims that his election defeat was fraudulent.
The impeachment declaration also alleged that Trump engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors by willfully inciting violence against the Government of the United States.
However, should Donald Trump be impeached for the second time, he stands to lose the following ;
- Pension : The 1958 Former Presidents Act assures that no president leaves office without being set for life, it guarantees a pension, access to health insurance, office space and staff, however,there is one exception: The act is granted to presidents who aren’t removed from office in an impeachment trial.
- Secret Service Protection : On January 10, 2013, President Barack Obama signed the Former Presidents Protection Act of 2012, reinstating lifetime Secret Service protection for his predecessor George W. Bush, himself, and all subsequent presidents. This is however not applicable to Presidents who were impeached.
- Automatic Disqualification From The 2024 Elections: The United States Constitution permits the Senate to permanently disqualify Trump from holding “any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States” so long he has been impeached on double occasion. Recall that Trump had been impeached in late 2019 for pressuring Ukraine to intervene in the 2020 election.
The term “impeachment” refers to the House’s decision to charge a public official with “high crimes and misdemeanors,” the phrase the Constitution uses to describe offenses warranting removal of a high official. The House may impeach such an official by a simple majority vote.
After such a vote, the matter moves to the Senate, which will conduct a trial and decide whether to convict the impeached official (if the president is impeached, the Chief Justice of the United States shall preside over this trial). Convicting someone who is impeached requires a two-thirds majority vote in the Senate.
