On Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she has instructed the House Rules Committee to be prepared to move forward with a potential impeachment procedure against incumbent President Donald Trump, who conceded the 2020 election in a video message posted earlier on Twitter.
The video was, however, deleted by Twitter before it permanently blocked the US president's account.
In the meantime, media reports indicated that House Democrats have already drafted new articles of impeachment against Trump, seeking to oust him on the charges of "abuse of power and "incitement of insurrection".
This comes after the chaos at the US Capitol on Wednesday, where at least five people, including a police officer, were killed and dozens more injured, as violent crowds of Trump supporters stormed the building to protest the official confirmation process of Joe Biden's victory in the November 3 presidential election.
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