{"id":150816,"date":"2022-01-27T16:29:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T16:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=150816"},"modified":"2022-01-27T16:29:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T16:29:52","slug":"trumps-second-impeachment-trial-is-dead-on-arrival-as-45-republican-senators-vote-against-unconstitutional-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/trumps-second-impeachment-trial-is-dead-on-arrival-as-45-republican-senators-vote-against-unconstitutional-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump's second impeachment trial is \u2018dead on arrival\u2019 as 45 Republican senators vote against \u2018unconstitutional\u2019 hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

REPUBLICAN Senators have all but killed off Democratic hopes of impeaching former President Donald Trump – leaving the charge of inciting an insurrection "dead on arrival".<\/strong><\/p>\n

Only five members of Trump's party on Tuesday voted to go forward with the impeachment trial over his alleged role in inciting the Capitol siege on January 6.<\/p>\n


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In a 55 to 45 vote, Senators narrowly halted a Republican effort to dismiss the impeachment charge.<\/p>\n

But the Constitution requires a two-thirds vote of the 100-member Senate to convict – meaning it looks highly unlikely that Trump will be impeached once the trial concludes.<\/p>\n

The impeachment hearings are scheduled to begin on February 8.<\/p>\n

The Senate set aside an objection from Kentucky Senator Rand Paul that would have declared the impeachment proceedings unconstitutional. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf more than 34 Republicans vote against the constitutionality of the proceeding, the whole thing\u2019s dead on arrival,\u201d Paul said shortly before the vote.<\/p>\n

"'It's a farce, and it's not constitutional, and it shows the double standards because Democrats have had much more hateful speech, much more specifically inciting violence, and no one said a peep about it."<\/p>\n

He added that Democrats \u201cprobably should rest their case and present no case at all" and labeled the impeachment as a "clown show" and a "stupid joke".<\/p>\n

As such, Trump's impeachment will begin as scheduled on the week of February 8.<\/p>\n


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The 100-member group of US senators have now been officially sworn in as jurors for the trial.<\/p>\n

Many Republican senators have challenged the legitimacy of the trial and questioned whether Trump's repeated demands to overturn Joe Biden\u2019s election really constitute an \u201cincitement of insurrection."<\/p>\n

Paul called the vote "deranged", saying: \u201cPrivate citizens don\u2019t get impeached. <\/p>\n

"Impeachment is for removal from office, and the accused here has already left office.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want this body on record \u2014 every last person here,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

\u201cIs this how you think politics should be?\u201d<\/p>\n

Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio all appeared on Fox News on Tuesday proclaiming that it was wrong to go ahead with the impeachment.<\/p>\n

Rubio told Fox News' Neil Cavuto that it was a "stupid" waste of time arguing that it was damaging America.<\/p>\n

"It's not even constitutional. Logic tells you that," he told Cavuto. <\/p>\n

"The automatic consequence of impeachment and trial, if you're convicted, the automatic consequence is you're removed from office. That's the consequence.<\/p>\n

"You can't remove Donald Trump from office. He's not in office."<\/p>\n

Speaking to Sean Hannity on Tuesday Cruz said that the impeachment was "driven by the partisan rage and the partisan anger that the Democrats feel".<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Graham, 65, said the impeachment had been rushed through in the House without witnesses and is a "danger to the democracy and the presidency itself".<\/p>\n

He said:\u00a0"The President of the United States was impeached in 50 hours without one witness being called and he didn't have a lawyer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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