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Impeachment proceedings against Trump: Now it’s the turn of the Senate

It is the next step in the impeachment procedure against US President Trump: the House of Representatives has forwarded the charges to the Senate. There will be a decision on impeachment in the coming weeks.

The US House of Representatives has decided with the majority of Democrats to submit the charges against US President Donald Trump to the Senate. The resolution passed by the House of Representatives with a majority of 228 to 193 votes also determines the seven prosecutors for the Senate process. The charge is brought by Democratic MP Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Secret Service Committee.

Preparatory steps for the process are likely to be taken in the Senate later this week. So the senators must be sworn in for their jury role. The allegations against Trump itself will then be from the beginning of next week.

Trump is said to have urged Selensky to investigate

The background to the impeachment process is the Ukraine affair. The Democrats accuse Trump of urging Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj to investigate his political rival Joe Biden to influence the 2020 U.S. presidential election in his favor.

They see it as proven that Trump has made a meeting with Selenskyj in the White House and the release of military aid for Ukraine dependent on the announcement of such investigations. When that came out, Trump had done everything he could to block the House investigation. The charges are, therefore, abuse of power and obstruction of the US Congress investigation.


Impeachment unlikely

After Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1999, Trump is only the third president to face impeachment in the Senate. Because of the Republican majority in the Senate, it is highly unlikely that the two-thirds majority required for the President’s impeachment will come about in at least one of the two charges.

The chairwoman of the House of Representatives, the democrat Nancy Pelosi, made it clear why, in her view, the procedure is nevertheless significant: the impeachment procedure remains forever. “You can never erase that,” she said.

“Weakest Counts”

The White House said: “These are the weakest charges ever impeaching a president.” It is therefore not expected that the procedure in the Senate will take longer than two weeks. The White House will soon announce who will be part of the president’s defense team.

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