Senate Majority Leader will go ahead with the sooner action against Senate Minority Leader McConnell’s hope to put things off for a few weeks…
Schumer apparently can actually hold up things for a while in the Senate anyways as a fairness to Trump’s legal team and as way to get more Biden people confirmed….
But this move ….
Does several things….
It puts Donald Trump’s name BACK into the headlines less than a week after Joe Biden has become President…
It could slow Biden’s confirmation’s to a crawl….
(Can Schumer do a duel thing like they did for the Clinton trial?)
It assures those Republican’s who want to support Trump more leverage to make sure he’s not convicted…
With that it leaves the possibility that Trump COULD run again and actually helps Trump politically….
Some Democrats will think I’m crazy but while this is gonna get pound of flesh for Democrats. from Trump..
In the end it might actually help the Republicans for 2022….
And it’s gonna slow Joe Biden down…..
But?
Democrats DO tend to screw things up when they have control over everything….
The only hope on this is that the trial is over quickly …
Make no mistake?
Donald Trump WANTED to derail Joe Biden’s win and Presidency…
He’s guilty as hell….
Yet?
The US Senate is NOT likely to convict him…
I believe …
Republicans are NOT gonna let Trump’s collateral damage hurt them after he’s gone….
The House will transmit its article of impeachment charging former President Donald J. Trump with “incitement of insurrection” to the Senate on Monday, triggering the start of a trial unlike any in American history, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York said on Friday.
Mr. Schumer, the majority leader, said the decision had been relayed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi but he declined to elaborate further on how the trial would run. Once the article arrives, Senate rules say the chamber must almost immediately be transformed into a court of impeachment and sit in judgment until a verdict is reached.
Mr. Schumer and Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, his Republican counterpart, have been negotiating for days over further parameters for the trial in hopes of settling on bipartisan rules. Democrats are intent on trying to set up a dual track whereby the Senate could still confirm President Biden’s cabinet nominees before the trial starts each day to try to minimize the impact of the proceeding on his first days in office.
Ms. Pelosi’s decision to move on Monday, a little less than two weeks after the House’s bipartisan impeachment vote, rebuffed a request Mr. McConnell made on Thursday to delay the trial to provide Mr. Trump’s newly appointed legal team time to prepare. He had asked that the heart of the trial not begin until mid-February.
However, senators could still come to their own agreement to build in extra time for pretrial written briefs to delay the start of oral arguments in the Senate. Democrats involved in the planning indicated they were not entirely opposed to giving Mr. Trump’s team some time, out of fairness, and could use the lag to confirm more Biden nominees….
Political writer Elizabeth Drew speculates on the question:Can Trump “rehabilitate “ himself?
She uses the example of Richard Nixon who ,after resigning and stewing in San Clemente, made a comeback of sorts as a well regarded author and analyst of foreign affairs.
Nixon was always known for his expertise in foreign relation and,despite being a schizophrenic paranoid and having at least acquiesced in criminal acts ,was a smart guy and recognized as such.Additionally, Nixon was looking for a personal,not a political comeback.
Trump on the other hand is not known for expertise in anything ,rather, in general, for his ignorance in many basic matters ,is at least if not more so unhinged than Nixon and would likely not be characterized by anyone other than his most rabid supporters as “smart.”
Besides , Trump,at least presently ,aspires to a political comeback.Whether that occurs or not remains to be seen;however, the comparison to Nixon is not,my view ,a valid one
Could Trump Rehabilitate His Image?
Elizabeth Drew: “Presidents Donald Trump and Richard Nixon both left Washington in helicopters and ignominy, awash in financial problems and their customary self-pity. Both were above-average paranoiacs who felt (with some justification) that the elites looked down on them and that enemies everywhere sought to undermine them; they despised the press, exploited racism for political purposes and used inept outside agents (the ‘plumbers,’ Rudy Giuliani) to carry out their more nefarious plots. Neither was inclined to let aides rein them in. Both were impeached for trying to manipulate the opposition party’s nomination contest. Both degraded the presidency. Both came unglued at the end.”…
More…
The same people who thought Trump could “grow into” the role of President think he can “rehabilitate” his image.
The rest of us can’t be bothered with fairy tales.
True THAT…..
Very Interesting….
Progressives in Congress are calling for restraint in responding to the deadly riots at the US Capitol, according to a report.
“We already have laws on the books. Sorry, but you are just gonna have to learn to apply them equally,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said in a tweet Thursday.
The “Squad” member then retweeted a letter from civil rights groups opposing “any new domestic terrorism charge, the creation of a list of designated domestic terrorist organizations, or other expansions of terrorism-related authorities.”…
Morre…
This getting to be a ping pong ball thing for Democrats….
The ‘trial’
The Hill is reporting that President Biden has AGAIN signaled that he isn’t in a hurry for a Trump trial rhat is most likely take away from his time with the Senate end up with a aquital…
Pelosi seems held bent on going ahead….
Schumer has just announced the Trump second impeachment trial will start February 8th
Nancy Pelosi has been a great Speaker , but she needs to retire after 2022…..
Misogyny is ugly at anytime of the day James.
She should retire? We’ve been through this before. Obviously your reading and retention skills are either failing you or they never existed.
I told you before, Nancy was planning to retire but stayed when Hillary lost. She got the House back in spite of a gerrymandered map and helped bring Trump down.
But James, because he doesn’t think a seditious piece of shit should be held accountable, thinks Nancy has made a fatal mistake and should retire.
News flash she will retire, but not because you think so, she will retire because she accomplished her goal.
She’s 80 and wants to come home to be with the grandkids. But if you think she won’t punish the Republican pigs who both invaded the Capitol and the main Republican pig who encouraged that invasion you’re stupid.
The fact that you continue to make this ridiculous comment at a time our new President needs her would be funny. But it’s typical and sad. Because it’s James.
The House has handed up the Donald J. Trump second impeachment charge to the US Senate for a trial …..
There will be a 2 week period fir Trump’s defense to be pit together…
As it stands now?
One can expect no conviction on the charge which would require a 60 Senate member vote….