House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will send the article of impeachment against former president Donald Trump to the Senate early next week, meaning that preparations for the impeachment trial will soon begin.
What You Need To Know House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will send the article of impeachment against former president Donald Trump to the Senate Monday
âIt will be a full trial, it will be a fair trial," Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed pushing back the start of the trial to mid-Februrary on Thursday
The House voted to impeach Trump last week, following the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, on a single charge of "inciting violence against the government of the United States"
Speaking on the Senate floor Friday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that the article of impeachment will be delivered on Monday.
âIt will be a full trial, it will be a fair trial," Schumer said. "Senators will have to decide whether they believe Donald John Trump incited the insurrection."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Thursday proposed pushing back the start of Trumpâs impeachment trial to February to give him time to prepare and review his case.
"Senate Republicans are strongly united behind the principle that the institution of the Senate, the office of the presidency, and former President Trump himself all deserve a full and fair process that respects his rights and the serious factual, legal, and constitutional questions at stake," McConnell said in a statement Thursday night.
"Given the unprecedented speed of the Houseâs process, our proposed timeline for the initial phases includes a modest and reasonable amount of additional time for both sides to assemble their arguments before the Senate would begin to hear them," the Kentucky GOP leader added.
The House voted to impeach Trump last week, following the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, on a single charge of "inciting violence against the government of the United States."
Trump is the only president in history to be impeached twice.
scsuhockey on January 22nd, 2021 at 15:48 UTC »
Here's the thing... he was impeached for inciting a riot meant to overturn election results. That's accurate and worthy of conviction unto itself. However, I think convincing Republicans to convict requires them to focus on the bigger picture: The US cannot survive questioning election results every four years. It will escalate if this cycle isn't framed as a aberration. The only way to conclusively frame this as an aberration is to convict Trump. (Expelling Hawley and Cruz would help too, but that's a separate matter and even less likely to happen, IMHO.)
We're at a crossroads. Either this cycle is framed as extraordinary or ordinary. Conviction frames it as unacceptable and guarantees it won't be repeated in the future. Acquittal frames it as acceptable and guarantees it will be repeated in the future, perhaps with irreversibly devastating results.
EDIT: Some people are taking issue with my use of the phrase "questioning election results". You could alternatively read that as "sowing false doubt concerning election results". Were Dems guilty of this in 2016? To a degree, most definitely. Did the candidate herself come anywhere close to participating in the despicable actions of DJT? Most definitely not. But I'm not backing off entirely on my choice of language. History is full of examples where candidates conceded in close elections where they were the apparent loser but believed they legitimately won. Why then, did they concede? It was a signal to their supporters that moving forward in good faith was best for the sake of democracy. I believe we've moved too far from those days, and I also believe that convicting DJT will point us (Dems and Republicans both) back towards that direction.
bonyponyride on January 22nd, 2021 at 15:37 UTC »
Pelosi has to do this now because Republican politicians are already trying to rewrite history and pretend that what Trump did was fine.
Edit: Here's an example from the House minority leader: https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/01/21/kevin-mccarthy-donald-trump-capitol-riot-role-sot-vpx-nr.cnn
If you have a Republican Rep, politely let them know what you think about this strategy: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
teslacoil1 on January 22nd, 2021 at 15:19 UTC »
Trump is a criminal ex-president who extorted Ukraine with tax payer money to investigate a political opponent, who obstructed justice 10 times according to the Mueller report, who was labeled as "Individiual-1" and committed campaign finance felonies with Michael Cohen, who tried to force Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find 11,780 votes" to overturn the vote count in Georgia, who committed tax fraud according to the NYT, and who incited an insurrection on the Capitol with his constant lies and rhetoric.
In addition, these are the other criminals that were hired or affiliated with this president:
His National Security Advisor pled guilty twice His campaign chairman was convicted on 8 counts. 10 counts were a mistrial. A Trump supporter on the jury, Paula Duncan, convicted Manafort on all 18 counts. His deputy campaign chairman, Rick Gates, pled guilty His personal lawyer pled guilty His foreign policy advisor on his campaign has pled guilty His long time advisor and associate, Mr Stone, was found guilty on 7 counts