The House Democrats have settled on charges that US House will vote on against the sitting President Donald J. Trump…..Trump will be the 4th US President in history to be charged….
The whole House must vote to support the reported misdeeds….
With the expected approval from the majority Democrats in the House…
The indictment will go to the US Senate for a trial….
As of now?
The US Senate (Majority Republican 53 to 47) jury conviction threshold of 67 votes is just NOT there….
Leaving a meeting with Pelosi, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.) told reporters that he and the chairmen of other House committees would announce specific articles at a news conference at 9 a.m. Tuesday.
At an event hosted by the Wall Street Journal on Monday night, Pelosi said no final decision had been made.
“You think I’m going to tell you the articles of impeachment?” she said when asked about the matter. “We’re in a place where our members, our leadership of our committees of jurisdiction have now gotten the last input” about the conduct at issue, she added. “They’ll make a determination, a recommendation as to how we will go forward and what the articles will be.”
Under the current plan, the Judiciary Committee would vote on the articles Thursday, according to two people familiar with the matter, setting up a floor vote next week.
Democrats laid the groundwork for the charges Monday, lambasting Trump as a danger to the country during a contentious Judiciary panel hearing that foreshadowed a likely party-line vote on the articles.
Describing Trump as a “continuing risk to the country,” Nadler forcefully accused the president of using his office to pressure Ukraine to launch political investigations and then trying to block Congress from investigating him.
“President Trump put himself before country,” he said. “The president welcomed foreign interference in our election in 2016, he demanded it in 2020, and then he got caught.”….
image….thenationalhearld.com
Joke of the Day?
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
“In modern history, we’ve never gone after impeaching a president in the first term” — Kevin McCarthy argues that there’s a precedent against impeaching presidents before their second term 😂
So Senate Republicans are likely not to call any witnesses in the looming Trump impeachment “trial.”Well, why should they?
Look there is a certain surrealistic quality to this whole thing.
Too bad CG isn’t here for a pro wrestling metaphor.
We all know how this “trial” is going to end.Frankly, I’m bored by the whole thing.Sure Trump did”it,” but as I have emphasized over and over this is a political process.And the politics are such ,that he isn’t going to be convicted.
Polls show that None of this has effected Trumps numbers at all.
So let’s hurry and get this “show” over with so we can get to the real event and that is removing Trump by defeating him in an election.