Trump needs to go, now. He's committed acts of sedition and treason, attempting to subvert the very Constitution he has sworn to defend by interfering with the critical certification of his successor--which the Constitution demands is a Congressional responsibility (and for good and obvious reasons). Sure, there can be objections raised to the certification of electoral results, but they are the domain of Congress to decide upon, without the violent interference of insurrectionist fascist and white supremacist thugs and idiots stirred up by the US President.
The wonderfully decided Brandenburg v Ohio decision of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren defines the limits of Constitutionally protected speech more definitively than the earlier Clear and Present Danger formulation many learned in school. Speech is no longer protected by the 1st Ammendment when it provokes or incites imminent lawless action. This is clearly what Mr Trump did in his speech to his followers and subsequent tweets. Action could hardly have been more imminent and lawless, and Trump did not stop what he had started, as would have been the job of a chief executive defending the Constitution.
Once a person has broken their most critical trust, they can be trusted no more with anything. And that is the position US and others are in with regards to Mr Trump right now. No one can be sure his orders are constitutional or not. Nobody can be expected to make this decision. Nobody should have to.
We are in grave danger until Trump is removed from the Presidency.
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