President Donald Trump should resign immediately and turn the government over to Vice President Mike Pence in a caretaker role until President-elect Joe Biden can be inaugurated Jan. 20.
Trump’s unfounded claims of electoral fraud inflamed a crowd of protesters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in a disgraceful act of sedition Wednesday.
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