U.S. House impeachment managers slammed Senate Republicans for their impeachment trial process, calling it is a ‘cover up’ for President Donald Trump
Democratic Representative Adam Schiff, who helped spearhead the House impeachment inquiry, summarized the charges against Trump and said the president had committed “constitutional misconduct justifying impeachment.”
“For all of the name-calling and finger-pointing from the president’s counsel, we did not hear a single argument on the merits about why there should not be the documents and witnesses we requested in this trial,” Schumer said. That plan was changed to give each side three days to give opening arguments. The rules also will allow the House’s record of the impeachment probe to be admitted as evidence in the trial, as Democrats had demanded.
Even if such a motion fails, Trump is almost certain to be acquitted by the 100-member chamber, where a two-thirds majority is needed to remove him from office.House Managers Rep. Adam Schiff and Rep. Jerry Nadler walk to the Senate Floor for the start of the Senate impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, U.S., January 21, 2020. REUTERS/Mary F. CalvertDemocrats accuse Trump of pressuring Ukraine, a vulnerable ally, to interfere in U.S.
The Senate trial is expected to continue six days a week, Monday through Saturday, until at least the end of January. No president has ever been removed through impeachment, a mechanism the nation’s founders - worried about a monarch on American soil - devised to oust a president for “treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”A pivotal event in the impeachment case is a July 25 phone call in which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate the Bidens and a discredited theory that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 U.S. election.
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