A brand with a “hot iron”: the European press waits hard to close the trial for the removal of Trump

The outcome, positive for the president, is little doubt but the event will not be without interest, according to European media.

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Thehostilities will begin this Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. Belgian time. The outcome, positive for the president, is hardly in doubt. This does not mean that the procedure will have no political consequences. This is what we write this Tuesday, January 21 in our columns.

For Le Figaro, it is a “historic but played in advance” trial. According to the French right-wing daily, the event is above all “a political affair. “Republican President Trump is being tried by a Republican-dominated Senate, and therefore has almost no risk of being convicted. There is nonetheless a historic moment in American political life. “

A “sham”

For Time, it is a “sham trial, but still necessary.” “The dismissal trial which starts this Tuesday in the Senate has, dare we say the word, all sham,” according to the Swiss newspaper with liberal ideas. The French-language daily nevertheless believes that “the moment remains historic and symbolic, powerful” and that the event will mark “with a hot iron”, the presidency of Donald Trump.

according to the Volkskrant “The procedure is important, precisely because it is a procedure, in the non-legal sense of the term. For the center-left Dutch daily, “The question is not so much what will be the result, but how it will be achieved. The next few weeks will determine the state of political America. Ultimately, history will judge not only Trump, but also senators. “

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