US Congress To Deliver Trump Impeachment Charge On Monday
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who displaced McConnell as the chamber’s leader after Democrats won two Georgia runoff elections this month, announced the move on the Senate floor on Friday.
Schumer did not say when Trump’s second impeachment trial would begin.
“The House will deliver the article of impeachment to the Senate. The Senate will conduct a trial of the impeachment of Donald Trump.
”It will be a full trial. It will be a fair trial,” Schumer said on the Senate floor.
That came the morning after McConnell asked the House to delay sending the charges until next Thursday, and to agree not to start the trial until mid-February.
The delay was aimed at giving Trump more time to prepare a defence against the charge that he incited insurrection by his followers who s...