45 Republican Senators Reject Volume II of Donald Trump’s impeachment
The majority of Republican senators rejected Donald Trump’s impeachment volume II. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky said the impeachment trial agenda in the Senate was dead.
The US House of Representatives has agreed to impeach Donald Trump, so now it is the Senate’s turn to convene. The Democrats need 2/3 of the votes of senators, including opposition senators, for Trump to succeed.
“45 Senators agree that the ruse ‘trial’ is unconstitutional. That is more than enough to stop and then end this partisan impeachment process,” Rand Paul said via Twitter, quoted Wednesday (27/1/2021).
Rand Paul is the initiator of the vote related to Trump’s impeachment. He also declared that the impeachment trial was dead on arrival (DOA).
“This ‘trial’ is dead on arrival at the Senate,” he said.
The Republican leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, also refused.
There are only five Republican senators who support the impeachment discourse: Mitt Romney (Utah), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Susan Collins (Maine), Ben Sasse (Nebraska), and Pat Toomey (Pennsylvania). They all criticized Donald Trump for the riots on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021.
US Senate debates Donald Trump’s impeachment schedule
The United States Senate (US) is debating the impeachment schedule of former Donald Trump. Even though Trump has stepped down from office, this impeachment will make him unable to hold public office anymore.
AP News reported Saturday (23/1), Senate Chair Chuck Schumer said Donald Trump’s impeachment trial will begin on February 8, 2021.
“The Senate will carry out Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. It will be a complete trial, a fair trial,” said Democratic Senator Schumer.
Schumer said he had heard that Republicans called the impeachment of Donald Trump invalid, because Trump was no longer in office.
Schumer dismissed the argument. He said that many constitutional experts said that the impeachment trial could be held.
“It doesn’t make sense that a president or any official could commit grave crimes against our country and then be allowed to step down in order to avoid accountability and an attempt to bar him from holding office in the future,” said Schumer.
The leader of the opposition, Senator Mitch McConnell, called for a fair trial. However, he suggested that the trial be held on February 11 so that the Senate could be better prepared.
