Live updates: Biden weighs in on Trump impeachment, says Dems won’t have votes to convict



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President Joe Biden said in an interview on Monday that it looks like Democrats won’t be able to convict former President Trump – once again – in an impeachment trial.

His comments are likely a blow to Democrats, and come as House Democrats introduced an impeachment article to the Senate on Monday night.

QUICK FACTS

    • Trump will stand trial weeks after the House voted to impeach him on a single count of “incitement to insurgency.”
    • The trial itself is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, February 9, a few weeks after Trump’s last day in office.

Trump’s Republican denunciations have cooled since the Jan.6 riot on Capitol Hill. Instead, Republicans present a tangle of legal arguments against the legitimacy of the trial and wonder if Trump’s repeated demands to quash Joe Biden’s election were really an incentive.

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