Republican senators are debating what they want their party’s future relationship with Donald Trump
Donald Trump: Iran convicts US businessman of espionage: DC denounces, state capitals see few problems and strong security amid protests. Pardon claimants have paid tens of thousands to Trump allies to pressure the president: NYT MORE be after he leaves office on Wednesday.
In the face of a deeply divided Republican Senate conference, leader of the Senate majority Mitch McConnell
Addison (Mitch), Mitchell McConnell, Graham asks Schumer to vote to dismiss indictment against Trump Rove: chances of conviction increase if Giuliani represents Trump in Senate indictment trial Boebert’s communications director resigns in the midst of the Capitol riots: report MORE (R-Ky.) He gives his colleagues the freedom to vote their conscience when the Senate tries Trump on charges that incited the insurgency.
McConnell tells colleagues that he himself has not decided whether to vote to convict Trump over a House-approved indictment, and associates describe the Republican Party leader as “furious” at that attack on the Capitol by ‘a pro-Trump crowd.
The New York Times reported that McConnell told associates that he sees the removal effort as a way to break up the Republican party with Trump, although the Republican Party leader dismissed what he called “speculation.” press.
A Senate vote to condemn Trump would need at least 17 Republican votes to succeed, if all 50 Democratic senators vote to condemn. A second ballot could be held to prevent Trump from running for office again. This would require a simple majority in the Senate.
While a good number of Republican senators would like to break free from what they see as Trump’s destabilizing and often erratic leadership, Republican strategists and aides warn that there is a serious political risk in banning him from future political office.
“I don’t think it’s an easy call, but I think there would be a lot more Republican support if it wasn’t related to the Democrats’ clear desire to prevent him from taking office ever again, ”said Vin Weber, Republican strategist. “This is the real issue politically.
“A lot of people on both sides who want Trump to just leave think,‘ Okay, we’re just going to get rid of Trump. He can’t run again, “he added.
But he warned that “the people of Trump, who probably mean a majority of Republican voters, still view Trump as their leader. [and] they consider that the elections are stolen ”.
“If we take the step of banning Trump from running again, they will not say that anything has been stolen. They will simply say that the country’s power structure has prevented our leader from running again and he will be right,” he added. . “You have created an impossible situation when it comes to trying to soften divisions in the country a bit and soften the pro-Trump hard core vote.”
Some Republicans already use it as a justification to oppose the ouster.
His. Tim Scott
Timothy (Tim) Eugene ScottHarris will resign in the Senate on Monday, McConnell says he is undecided on whether to vote to condemn Trump McConnell will not repeat the role of Trump’s main advocate MORE (RS.C.), an influential member of the Senate Democratic Republican conference who led the effort to draft a Republican police reform bill last year, warned that Trump’s ouster it would minimize efforts to promote national unity after the 2020 struggle.
“A vote of impeachment will only lead to more hatred and a deeply fractured nation,” he said, arguing that Trump’s convict “would fly in direct opposition to what the president-elect Joe Biden
Joe Biden: Fear of a privileged attack provokes additional control of National Guard troops by the FBI: AP Iran condemns US businessman accused of espionage: DC denounced, state capitals see little problems, strong security amid protests MORE has been calling all year “.
At the same time, outrage has risen in the Senate Republican Conference as details of last week’s attack on Congress appear.
Federal prosecutors said in a court hearing Friday that they had “solid evidence” of riot police who breached the Capitol seeking to “capture and assassinate elected officials,” including the vice president. Mike Pence
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That revelation provoked the senator’s indignation. Ben Sasse
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“These men were not drunks who became disconcerting; they were terrorists who attacked the transfer of power required by the constitution of this country. They failed, but they became dangerously close to starting a bloody constitutional crisis. They must be prosecuted in the measure of the law, “Sasse said in a statement.
The fall in Trump’s popularity, his words of encouragement to a crowd of supporters before the Capitol storm last week, and his discredited and unfounded claims that the 2020 election was stolen make the senators of the GOPs look for a way to break decisively with the outgoing president.
A small group of Republican senators has indicated they are open to voting to condemn Trump for inciting the crowd.
“I think this president has committed a crime attributable through his words on January 6 and through January 6, when he was not honest with the American people about elections and election results,” the senator said. Lisa Murkowski
Democratic lawmaker Lisa Ann Murkowski says the “assassination party” fired Pelosi during the riot impeachment trial, which tests Trump’s control over the Senate Republican Party “Almost Heaven, West Virginia.” – Joe Manchin and a Senate of 50-50 MORE (R-Alaska) told KTUU, an Alaska news channel.
Sasse, Sens. Pat Toomey
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Willard (Mitt) Mitt Romney The advisory trial proves Trump’s adherence to the Senate GOP “Almost Heaven, West Virginia” – Joe Manchin and a 50-50 Senate The Hill’s Morning Report – Biden calls on Congress to expand the largest relief response in US history MORE (R-Utah) have also said Trump committed crimes or blamed him for inciting the mob that stormed the Capitol.
But Republican aides say Democrats will not get 17 Republican Party senators to vote to condemn Trump after he leaves office.
“It’s an opportunity to purge Trump, yes. I don’t know there are 17 votes to do that. This is yet another opportunity for Democrats to continue trying to destroy the Republican party. What the Democrats have done successfully is to politicize the dismissal without hearings or any process in the House, ”said an aide to the Senate Republican Party.
The attendee predicted that Trump’s legal team would respond to the Senate floor with statements and videos from Democratic politicians urging his supporters to “fight” and express sympathy for last year’s Black Lives Matter protests, which went causing the destruction of property and death in several cities.
Ja Sen. Ted Cruz
Rafael (Ted) Edward Cruz The video recently released since the siege of the Capitol shows the rioters facing the police, who are being released by Senate desks. Can we protect our country, our rulers and ourselves? The super democratic PAC targets Hawley and Cruz in the new MORE advertising (R-Texas), who have been asked by several fellow Democrats to resign because if their role in opposing the final count of election votes for Biden, points to Democrats’ support for the summer protests.
Some Republicans like Sen. Tom Cotton
Tom Bryant Cotton: Officers are preparing for Trump Booker’s second indictment trial: It would be “constitutionally dangerous” not to conduct a full Trump indictment process. Can we protect our country, our rulers and ourselves? MONTH (R-Ark.) He will try to dodge the question of whether Trump committed imputable crimes by arguing that the impeachment does not apply to a private citizen, which will be what Trump will be when the trial begins in the Senate.
“The founders designed the impeachment process as a way to remove charges from public office, not an investigation against private citizens,” he said in a statement.
Uncertainty is also growing about whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi: Cowboys for Trump Founder Arrested After Army General Capitol Riot Retired: “We Can’t Have Protesters at a State Capitol with Damn Long Guns” Graham asks Schumer to keep voting for dismiss the dismissal article against Trump MORE (D-California) will even send the indictment approved by the House to the Senate this month, as doing so would force it to immediately begin a trial that would stop the work on the COVID-19 relief proposal. ‘$ 1.9 trillion that Biden unveiled on Thursday and would hang confirmation of candidates in his cabinet.
The Republican aide said Republicans are unlikely to give Democrats consent to work on a coronavirus relief bill and confirm Biden’s candidates while the trial is underway, which means the agenda of the incoming president could be stalled for weeks.
Some Democrats are already making fun of pausing the Senate for two weeks to a month to carry out an impeachment trial.
His. Joe Manchin
Joseph (Joe) ManchinBiden’s tax hike proposals face a bumpy road that Senate Democrats are wary of the negative filibuster Manchin: Eliminate Hawley, Cruz with the 14th Amendment “should be a consideration” MORE (DW.Va.), an influential centrist, says holding a trial in the Senate after Trump leaves office “has no common sense.”
His. Chris Murphy
Christopher (Chris) Scott Murphy: Senate Democrats Wary of Democratic Senator Filibuster: Relief of COVID-19 Priority in Prosecution Trial Lawmakers Recall Trump’s Designation of Terrorism for Yemeni Hutis MORE (D-Conn.) He said Friday that his priority is to move a package of relief and Biden nominees before holding a trial to convict a former president.
The trial in the Senate could not begin before 1 a.m. on Jan. 20, after Trump was out of office, because the upper house is in a recess until Tuesday.