With Republicans enjoying a comfortable majority in the Senate, Mr Trump will all but certainly be acquitted.
US President Donald Trump is pressing his Republican allies to exert rigid control of his Senate trial and ensure a swift exoneration, a day afterA bitter fight looms over the coming hearings, expected to begin as early as the second week of January, with Senate leaders already drawing battle lines over the evidence that will be allowed.
"Now the Do-Nothing Party want to Do Nothing with the Articles & not deliver them to the Senate, but it's Senate's call!"Mr Trump, the third president in US history to be impeached, suggested that the Democrats would"lose by default" if they decided not to show up at a date determined by the Senate.
Pelosi feels her phony impeachment HOAX is so pathetic she is afraid to present it to the Senate, which can set a date and put this whole SCAM into default if they refuse to show up! The Do Nothings are so bad for our Country!The Senate Republicans have a 53-47 majority that makes the maths for clearing Mr Trump straightforward: his conviction and removal would require backing a two-thirds guilty vote on either charge.
But minutes after the vote late Wednesday, Democrats began pressuring him to have four current and former White House aides with direct knowledge of Mr Trump's Ukraine dealings to testify.Mr Trump blocked all four from testifying in the House, and Democrats believe their appearances at trial would bolster the case for conviction.In a speech on the Senate floor Thursday, Mr McConnell ridiculed the witness demand and the evidence behind the impeachment articles voted by Democrats.
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