Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer announced that Nancy Pelosi plans to send the impeachment article against former President Trump to the Senate on Monday making the way for a trial. Many Republicans have voiced concerns over the constitutionality of impeaching a president after he has left office. However, Schumer was adamant there will be a full trial into Trump’s role in inciting the Capitol riot on Jan. 6th while Congress held a Joint Session to confirm or oppose state’s electoral votes for Joe Biden.
“Make no mistake: There will be a full trial. There will be a fair trial,” Sen. Schumer wrote on Twitter.
I have spoken to @SpeakerPelosi. The articles of impeachment will be delivered to the Senate on Monday.
Make no mistake: There will be a full trial. There will be a fair trial.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) January 22, 2021
Nancy Pelosi confirmed the plan in a separate statement.
Fox News reports:
“We are respectful of the Senate’s constitutional power over the trial and always attentive to the fairness of the process, noting that the former president will have had the same amount of time to prepare for trial as our Managers,” Pelosi said. “Our Managers are ready to begin to make their case to 100 Senate jurors through the trial process.”
Schumer has been discussing how to organize the Senate and special rules for the upcoming impeachment trial with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
No agreement has been reached on either front. If one is not on impeachment rules before Monday, then the standing Senate impeachment rules will go into effect, forcing the Senate to convene every day at 1 p.m., excluding Sundays, to consider the impeachment “until final judgment shall be rendered.”
McConnell suggested a set of pre-trial procedures on Thursday that would delay the event by a few weeks, but the decision by Pelosi, D-Calif., instead sends the Senate potentially careening on a collision course with a full trial next week.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell got harsh blowback from conservatives after making remarks which placed blame on Trump for inciting the violence on the Capitol. However, the senior Republican has also been one of the leading voices in questioning the constitutionality behind holding a second impeachment now that Trump is a private civilian.
What a farce….may schumer have a heart attack over the weekend and DIE
Their idea are so popular with American’s that they are afraid of someone running against them in 4 years.
Sorry, but although I don’t like any of the demorats, that comment is too extreme for me.
This is the biggest disgrace that the demos have done, nowhere in President Trump’s message was there any reference to violence and rioting, btw, hows it looking in Portland and all those other places businesses were looted and burnt down. I guess they dont matter. It’s just ” let’s get trump for anything ” These looney demos need to get a life and start doing what they were elected for. They get paid under false pretenses
The Senate is turning into a clown show.
With a leader like Turtleface McConnell, who needs the Republican party. I am now an independent.
It was bad enough when we had McConnell. Now we have the walking disaster Cheesy Schumer.
It has already been a clown show for some time.
What a picture – unity amongst the enemies. Reminds me of
an earlier time when Jesus was betrayed & he was brought
before the crowd that had hailed Him the day before & now they
yelled, “Crucify him!”. I believe mob mentality?
.Best name to use would be Judas.
That is precisely what this is- a crucifixion. They hated Jesus and were so afraid of his followers that they had to erase Him from history. Sound familiar? Sadly, it didn’t work.
How does a 50-50 Republican Democrat split make Schumer the majority leader. Kamala is vice president, not a Senator, the Senate is split.
No, the Senate is 51-50 for the Democrats, because any time there is a tie vote, the flaming radical Harris saves the day for them by breaking the tie. [Fat chance of any Democrats voting with the Republicans on anything where the two parties are on opposite sides.]
76 votes are required for a conviction.
Dose congress have a case besides we’ll impeach
You can bet your last dollar that Trump will be found guilty…in fact he “is already” guilty in their eyes and he will be trying to prove his innocence. There is no innocence until proven guilty with the liberal Left. We will now see what Trump has said all along, “Witch Hunt”. Schumer is a nut job and full of hate and discontent.
You’re on. A guilty “finding” takes a 2/3 majority, and everyone should know Schumer can’t recruit enough RINOS to rubber stamp a guilty verdict. And everyone should know there is no “nuclear option” for changing that: it has to be painstakingly done through amending the US Constitution.
Evil is rearing it’s ugly head in the republican party. You republicans better stick together and vote this impeachment down or I hope everyone of you lose your power and seat forever. mcconnell is a disgusting backstabbing troll! He has never been a leader only a puppet for the global elite and democrats. He has always been a RINO! Kentucky do the right thing and recall this POS! He is truly making your state look incompetent!
To those of you who voted for Biden: In the next four years you are going to get what you voted for and it isn’t pretty. I don’t want to hear you complain about your taxes going up or gas prices doubling. I don’t want you to complain when your health insurance cost go up even further than they already are, or socialized medicine forces you to leave your doctor for one that has to see 100 patients per day. Don’t complain when you bring home less on your paycheck because you’re being penalized for climate change. Don’t complain when you lose your job because 15 million illegal immigrants suddenly become change and your employer decides to hire someone at a lower wage. Don’t complain when your job is just out right eliminated because the minimum wage is too high and your employer can no longer afford to stay open or even pay you. Don’t complain when your automotive or industrial job is eliminated because it’s shipped back to China. Don’t complain when interest rates double or even triple and home/automobiles are not as affordable as they used to be. Don’t complain when your stock and 401k take a massive hit. Don’t complain when we are locked into more endless wars in the Middle East. Don’t complain when otherwise safe communities are overrun by crime and start resembling Chicago, Portland, Seattle and Baltimore. Don’t complain when the educational system goes down even farther and higher education becomes unaffordable. You obviously are brainwashed by the government schools and fake news media and voted your feelings. Unfortunately facts don’t care about your feelings and you will learn this under the Biden/Harris administration. Just own up to it!!! And – if you do complain? I must say: “I told you so…suck it up, it’s your doing “. Also when the new administration makes a play for all of our legally owned weapons, don’t look to me for support, safety, or compliance because I will be busy defending my family, home, and fighting to the death defending my family using my GOD GIVEN 2nd amendment rights…
Flatulate Cheesy Chuckie Schumer has spoken. So it shall be. Will former President Trump have the opportunity to defend himself? Will he be able to bring forth witnesses? Or will this be a one sided mob lynching? Will republican Senators wimp out and vote with the Marxists? They have to have 76 votes for conviction.
…”there will be a full trial, a fair trial”… sure, and I’ve got land in Florida I’ll sell, too! There is no such thing as “fair” or “truth” with this man or his ilk.
Schumer has become an absolutely despicable person, proof positive that power corrupts.
SCREW YOU SCHUMER ITS NOT GOING TO WORK. – AND DO YOU KNOW WHY. THE ATTACK ON THE CAPITAL HAPPENED BEFORE TRUMP GAVE HIS SPEECH AND YOUR ATIFA ND BLM WERE THERE FIRST — THAT BROKE WINDOWS THE PATRIOTS WERE TRYING TO STOP THEM YOU PIECE OF DIRTY SCUM BAG.. I HOPE NOW CAN SUE THE HELL OUT OF YOU FOR TRYING TO STOP HIM— YOUR AND PELSOI IS OUT IN THE OPEN FOR ALL TO SEE JUST HOW DIRTY AND CONIVING YOU GARBAGE ARE. THANK YOU FOR SHOWING THE TRUE YOU AND THE DEM PARTY . —- YOUR DONE
Tortuga looking very chumy with piglosi and schmucky.
Why didn’t you guys expose the schumer mess up that happened yesterday. Schumer said that Donald Trump incited an erection. That comment right there shows how crazy and mixed up and stupid CHuck Schumer is. I know he corrected himself right after he said it but that needs to go out everywhere. He made a big Freudian error there and it needs to be exploited just like he exploits everything of the Republicans
Hey hey, ho ho, Sleepy Joe has got to go, hey hey, ho ho!