Chapter 281: Unprecedented
Just one day before the riots turned into an armed rebellion, the U.S. Senate held a trial of the impeachment bill for the president presided over by the ** official in advance.
The House of Representatives impeached President Ladakh on two charges, knowing that he was being coerced to endanger the national security of the United States, but he knew that he did not report the crime, and was suspected of masterminding the murder of the former president.
The presidential palace formed a defense team and engaged in heated debates with the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Kesser, and others.
Finally, the 100 Senate judges listened to the entire process, and then the chief justice of the Supreme Court questioned the senators by name.
Senators can only answer "guilty" or "not guilty," and as long as two-thirds of senators find them "guilty," the president is impeached and the vice president will take over.
Since President Ladakh has just been elected as Vice President (and President of the Senate), after his impeachment, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rance will take over as president.
In other words, the remainder of the president's term will fall into the hands of the opposition Donkey Party, which can be called a political earthquake.
However, because the ruling Elephant Party holds a majority of seats in the Senate, and the 100 members of the Senate also have a majority of the Elephant Party, the probability of Ladakh being successfully impeached is extremely low in principle.
"The alleged murder of the former president is not guilty of the two counts against the president this time!"
"Guilty of knowingly failing to report one of the two counts against the president this time!"
When the result was announced from the Chief Justice, it shook the audience.
In the impeachment case, as long as the crime is convicted, it means that the president of Ladakh has been successfully impeached!
A flash of brilliance flashed in the eyes of Kaiser, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and sure enough, the seemingly inconspicuous crime, under the so much evidence, that the members of the same party in Ladakh could not say the word "not guilty" in public.
He looked at Speaker of the House of Representatives on the other side, Rance, and the two looked at each other silently, and everything fell into their calculations.
What the two don't know, of course, is what kind of chaos they will face.
That afternoon, President Ladakh and his family had already moved out of the presidential palace in gloomy, and he really did not expect that his party colleagues would find him guilty.
Do they have water in their brains?
Because of the suddenness of the incident, Ladakh was not at all psychologically prepared.
Ranster has already made an initial handover with him and is convening an emergency meeting to form a new presidential team.
Tomorrow, new cabinet appointments should be announced at the inauguration ceremony.
Ladakh, who returned to his original residence, was still wondering what had gone wrong when he was stunned by the words of Curtis and Caesar, who arrived later.
"What do you say? Do you suspect that those parliamentarians are being controlled? β
Caesar nodded, "Yes, there is no strong evidence in the GIA at the moment, but I know that among the 100 members in the Senate, there are 78 members of our party and only 22 members of the donkey party."
But 45 of the 78 had attended a business tycoon's birthday dinner a week earlier. β
Ladakh asked, "What's so special about this birthday dinner?" β
"The special thing is that Keisel also participated that night. Keisel has been seen talking to these senators. β
Ladakh frowned and said, "Who is this business tycoon?" To be able to get lawmakers from both parties to attend his birthday dinner?
However, even if Kaiserl talked to these people, it doesn't mean that Kaiserl controlled these people, right? β
Curtis snorted coldly and said, "If anything is too coincidental, it can only be a conspiracy." Are you going to just give up? β
Curtis doesn't want Ladakh to give up, after all, he could face charges from the Justice Department, and without Ladakh's support on stage, he would likely be found guilty.
Who made the other party produce evidence of his meeting with members of the Black Helmets, which basically made it difficult for him to clear his name from the assassination of the former president.
"This business tycoon is an important member of the DuPont family and has good relationships with many important people in both parties," Caesar said. β
Ladakh knows the reason why Curtis is anxious, his presidency is gone, and it is undoubtedly very difficult to turn the tables again.
After hearing Caesar say that the business tycoon was a member of the Dupont family, he vaguely felt that there might really be some conspiracy in his heart.
"Curtis, the evidence that Caesar said is not enough to immediately change the status quo, but after a long time, the possibility of me returning to that position is very small, even if the case is overturned in the future, it will be too late."
Curtis's eyes flashed with a fierce glint and he said, "In that case, then we should break the net with these guys!" You may be convicted of not reporting the crime, are you really sitting still? β
Ladakh's heart jumped, looking at the two of them, the three of them were already a trinity because of the matter of the Lord Almighty, and if Curtis did anything, he would probably be involved.
"What do you want to do?"
Curtis said: "I'm going to ask that AI from Musk to help, and maybe I'll be able to find some direct evidence." β
Ladakh's face changed and he said, "Are you going to let it into the network?" What if it's out of our control? β
Caesar suddenly said, "Didn't you ask for the nuclear bomb to be placed in that machine room?" You shouldn't have handed over the code to Lancet, right? β
Ladakh was stunned for a moment and said, "I really forgot to hand over the password to this nuclear bomb." β
"As long as we find evidence that the AI found that they cheated in the impeachment case, we could turn the tables around," Caesar said.
You are our leader, and we need your wisdom to guide us. β
Ladakh hesitated and said, "But what if the AI can't find strong evidence?" β
Curtis said coldly: "Then split up!" β
Ladakh froze, and Curtis's words shocked him like thunder.
Caesar said at the right time: "I am sure that GIA will do your bidding, and I believe that we can gather a group of Elephant Party members."
Of course, the most important thing is that if we have artificial intelligence, we can attract the support of those three bigwigs, and maybe you are the second Lin Ken. β
Curtis also immediately took a stand, saying: "I can guarantee that the military is on your side." β
Ladakh struggled violently, he had just tasted the taste of supreme power, and it was not long before he was brought down by a conspiracy, which made him very unwilling.
Speaking of which, because of the political system of separation of powers, there has been no military coup since the founding of the country.
There are several reasons, one of which is that the executive management of the Mi** team belongs to the civilian Ministry of Defense, and the commander-in-chief is the president. In wartime, the president appoints front-line commanders, and the command is in the government, not in the military, and the president cannot coup himself.
Second, the armed forces are neutral, and neither party can establish an organization in the military, and military personnel cannot ask questions about politics, and they cannot join the army if they ask about politics.
Third, the armed forces are self-contained and do not overlap with local political powers, so there is no way to ask questions about politics. The system of government in the United States is that the president, governor, and mayor are all democratically elected, military coups, governments at all levels will not listen to you, and there are even state National Guards that can be used to fight back.
Fourth, military personnel have legal channels to participate in politics, and as long as they take off their military uniforms, they can run for president, such as Ai Seng Howell and Bao Wei.
However, the situation of the three Ladakh now makes these aspects untenable.
Ladakh has just been removed from the presidency, and there is still residual heat to be used, which is equivalent to the president himself carrying out a coup d'Γ©tat.
General Curtis is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and he has a certain enthusiasm for politics in his heart, and because of the control of the Almighty Lord, he has done a lot of foreshadowing in the army in advance, which can ensure that the army listens to him.
As for the question of whether governments at all levels will obey, there is GIA's Caesar, with the help of artificial intelligence to come up with evidence of the impeachment of the president fraud, I believe that all state governments will support Ladakh with force.
Thinking about it this way, it seems that his small group can really do the first military coup in the history of the United States.
Seeing Ladakh silent, Curtis couldn't help but urge again.
"Sir, tonight is the last time, and if we don't make decisions and actions tonight, it will be very difficult to change everything tomorrow after Lancet's inaugural speech."