U.S. Senators set combative tone for Trump’s impeachment trial
Posted by News Express | 20 December 2019 | 1,743 times
•U.S. Republican Leader Sen. McConnell and Minority Leader Sen. Schumer
The Republican leader of
the U.S. Senate, on Thursday, said that the impeachment of President Donald
Trump is based on “partisan rage” and the thinnest of evidence.
Sen. Mitch McConnell
dismissed the impeachment process, saying that Democrats had been talking about
impeaching Trump since before he became the Republican candidate for president
in 2016.
On Wednesday, the House
of Representatives voted to send two articles of impeachment to the chamber.
McConnell called the vote a “pre-determined end to a partisan crusade.”
The party-line vote saw
Republicans uniformly opposing impeachment, while the vast majority of
Democrats voted in favour.
The two articles move to
the Senate for a trial expected to take place in 2020.
Trump maintains he did
nothing wrong and said again on Wednesday that impeachment is an effort to
overturn his election win.
He is accused of abusing
his office by soliciting Ukraine to dig up dirt on former vice president Joe
Biden, a leading candidate among Democrats bidding to run against Trump next
year.
Sen. Chuck Schumer said
in rebuttal to McConnell that Republicans showed “cravenness and blind fealty”
to Trump in their vote.
The minority leader said
he would meet with McConnell soon to discuss the rules of the Senate trial.
“The nation turns its
eyes to the Senate,” he said, adding that it is up to the chamber to exercise
its check on his power.
“I have little doubt
that if we tell the president he can escape scrutiny in this instance he will
do it again and again,” Schumer said. (dpa/NAN)
Source: News Express
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