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Friday, January 22, 2021, 23:56
US House to deliver Trump impeachment to Senate Monday
By Agencies
Friday, January 22, 2021, 23:56 By Agencies

US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of NY, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb 5, 2020, following a vote in the Senate to acquit US President Donald Trump on both articles of impeachment. (SUSAN WALSH / AP)

WASHINGTON - The US House of Representatives will deliver an impeachment measure charging former President Donald Trump with inciting insurrection to the Senate on Monday, starting a trial process that could ban him from holding office again, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Friday.

“The House will deliver the article of impeachment to the Senate. The Senate will conduct a trial of the impeachment of Donald Trump. It will be a full trial. It will be a fair trial,” Schumer said on the Senate floor.

Mitch McConnell, the US Senate Republican leader, proposed on Thursday that Trump's impeachment trial be delayed until mid-February so as to give him enough time to prepare a defense.

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On a conference call with Republican senators on Thursday, McConnell suggested "Trump should have at least as much time as the president had in previous trials, which means he would like to postpone the proceeding until the second week of February," US news website The Hill reported.

"It would have been the 10th or 11th [of February] or somewhere in there," said Senator Mike Braun, who was on the call.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at a news conference on Thursday that the House was "ready" to begin the trial but would wait until the Senate was prepared before formally transmitting the impeachment article

McConnell on Thursday said he hadn't heard back from Democrats on postponing the trial.

"Not yet, we're going to continue to talk about it," he said.

"At this time of strong political passions, Senate Republicans believe it is absolutely imperative that we do not allow a half-baked process to short-circuit the due process that former President Trump deserves or damage the Senate or the presidency," McConnell said in a statement.

Earlier this month, McConnell told Republican senators that under the Senate's impeachment rules, a trial is required to begin the day after the House managers present the articles of impeachment to the upper chamber.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at a news conference on Thursday that the House was "ready" to begin the trial but would wait until the Senate was prepared before formally transmitting the impeachment article.

"They have now informed us they are ready to receive, the question is other questions about how a trial will proceed, but we are ready," Pelosi said of the Senate.

The Democrats-controlled House voted to impeach Trump over "incitement of insurrection" in a 232-197 vote on Jan 13, making him the first president to be impeached twice.

The impeachment resolution cited Trump's speech to supporters on Jan. 6 that was followed by some of the crowd breaching the Capitol building to interrupt Congress's certification of the 2020 election results as evidence of his "incitement of insurrection." 


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