10 minutes agoTrump investigation: Senate decides to continue with trial, 6 Republicans in Democrat Camp
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)The divided American Senate voted to continue in the second historic investigative process against Donald Trump after an emotional opening day in which prosecutors argued the former president was responsible for inciting violent attack on the U.S. Capitol, while defence said the case would deepen the division [...]
After nearly four hours of debate in the same hall that was occupied by pro-Trump assailants on January 6th, senators, now sitting down as jurie members sworn to be right, voted 56 to 44 in the question of whether there was constitutional basis for putting the former president before the trial.
The six republics joined the entire democratic senators in an early victory for the prosecutions that destroyed one of the main pillars of Trump's defence, writes The Guardian, translates Periscopi.
Trump is the first president in American history to face the dismissal investigation after leaving office, and the only president in American history to have been investigated twice.
At least 17 republics must join the Democrats in declaring Trump guilty of high crimes and wrongdoing. The punishment would allow the Senate to disqualify him to hold official duty ever in his life.
Last month, only five republics joined the Democrats to defeat the effort to name the dismissal investigation as unconstitutional. /Periscope
