Biden won’t back House Democrats’ move to impeach Trump in wake of Capitol riots

President-elect Joe Biden declined to endorse House Democrats’ plan to impeach Donald Trump over his role in the violent Capitol riot that left five people dead, saying he is focused on the Covid-19 pandemic and reviving the economy.

‘What the Congress decides to do is for them to decide,” Mr Biden said. “But I’m going to have to and they’re going to have to be ready to hit the ground running because we Kamala [Harris] and I are sworn in we’re going to be introducing significant legislation to deal with the virus, to deal with the economy and to deal with economic growth.”

Notably, however, he did not try dissuading his fellow Democrats from making the riot instigator the first US president to ever be impeached twice.

“I thought for a long long time that President Trump wasn’t fit to hold that job,” he said after introducing more members of his incoming economic team. “That’s why i ran.”