Schumer says House to deliver report on impeachment of Trump to Senate on Monday

The House will hand over the impeachment article against former President Donald Trump to the Senate on Monday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Friday.

The action will kick off the process of the second trial that the ex-president faced on charges of serious crimes and misdemeanors. While Trump has already left the White House, the Senate can vote to prevent him from returning to office if he chooses to condemn him.

Earlier this month, the House accused Trump of inciting an insurgency against the government by igniting a mob that invaded the Capitol on January 6. The riot, which disrupted Congress’ tally of President Joe Biden’s electoral victory, left five people dead, including a Capitol Police officer.

Speaking after Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Expressed concern that Trump would not have enough time to mount a defense. He had asked the House to send this article on Thursday to ensure “a full and fair process.”

Trump hired South Carolina lawyer Butch Bowers to defend him during the trial. The nine impeachment officials who will present the House case are Democratic Representatives Jamie Raskin of Maryland, Diana DeGette of Colorado, David Cicilline of Rhode Island, Joaquin Castro of Texas, Eric Swalwell and Ted Lieu of California, Stacey Plaskett, the delegate from the US Virgin Islands, Madeleine Dean from Pennsylvania and Joe Neguse from Colorado.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who did not say Thursday when her chamber would forward the article to the Senate, argued that managers would not need to prepare as much evidence for the second trial as they did for the first. from last year.

“This year the whole world has witnessed the president’s incitement, the execution of his call to action and the violence that has been used,” the California Democrat told reporters on Thursday.

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