Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Wednesday that President Trump’s second impeachment trial will not start until at least next week, formally rejecting calls to return the Senate to Washington early.
“The House of Representatives has voted to impeach the President. The Senate process will now begin at our first regular meeting following receipt of the article from the House,” McConnell said in a statement.
He added that “there is simply no chance that a fair or serious trial” could be wrapped up before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in on Jan. 20, even if he were to agree with a request from Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) to return the Senate to Washington, D.C., early to start the trial.
“This is not a decision I am making; it is a fact. The President-elect himself stated last week that his inauguration on January 20 is the ‘quickest’ path for any change in the occupant of the presidency,” McConnell said.
The Senate is currently out of session until Jan. 19, a day before Biden will be sworn in.
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#BREAKING: McConnell says Trump impeachment trial to start after Biden sworn in https://t.co/bHFiajaqfl pic.twitter.com/3srUXnlL0m
— The Hill (@thehill) January 13, 2021
Cold-blooded. Mitch doesn't care about ending the national security threat to the United States. But instead he creates a good situation for Mitch and the GOP:
1. Punts to Dems
2. Ends Trump's ability to run again (if convicted)
3. Bollixes up the first month of Biden's term https://t.co/FujktSlURn— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 13, 2021
If Trump starts a military conflict in the next week, McConnell will wish he hadn't been this clever about it. https://t.co/DlPlLpE4y5
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 13, 2021
Schumer: "Make no mistake, there will be an impeachment trial in the United States Senate; there will be a vote on convicting the president for high crimes and misdemeanors; and if the president is convicted, there will be a vote on barring him from running again."
— Marianne LeVine (@marianne_levine) January 13, 2021
McConnell is 78, doesn't run again until he is *84*, and he doesn't give a shit what anyone thinks about anything. https://t.co/w5K2TEm6KQ
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 13, 2021
Now that the House has impeached him, any violence Trump inspires in the next week is a direct consequence of McConnell’s refusal to come back from vacation and hold the trial.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) January 13, 2021
I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you. https://t.co/HSw4w4KgOR
— Reed Galen (@reedgalen) January 14, 2021
Nice. Trump can do a lot of damage between now and next Wednesday.
It’s too bad the new president will be hamstrung by the senate’s continuing delay and obstruction. Tying the senate was not enough. Republicans running for the senate next year must be defeated.
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