The formal delivery of the charges against US President Donald Trump will set the stage for the opening of his trial likely Thursday or Friday.
WASHINGTON - The US House of Representatives will transmit articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate on Wednesday, setting the stage for the US leader's trial for abuse of power, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced.
With that move, Trump will become only the third US president in US history to go on trial for removal from office, for illicitly seeking help from Ukraine to smear a rival and boost his reelection campaign this year.Trump's conviction in the trial is highly unlikely, given Republicans' 53-47 control of the Senate, and the high two-thirds vote threshold required to find him guilty.
She accused Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell of supporting the dismissal effort and called for him to agree to Democrat demands to subpoena witnesses and documents for the trial."The American people will fully understand the Senate's move to begin the trial without witnesses and documents as a pure political cover-up," she added.
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