Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told his Republican colleagues on Thursday that he anticipates that the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump will begin next week.
Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) told Politico McConnell had said during a lunch meeting that he expects House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to give him the articles of impeachment as early as Friday.
“Which means that we’d get started next week,” Braun said.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) told Politico that while it was unclear whether McConnell knew for sure when he would receive the articles, “the gut feeling is that it will come over there tomorrow and set up for a Monday start.”
However, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) cautioned that nothing has been set in stone quite yet.
“We’re all just speculating,” he told reporters.
During her weekly press conference on Thursday, Pelosi said she’ll hand over the articles “when I’m ready,” which will “probably be soon.”
Tierney Sneed contributed to this report.
Except it’s not just a matter of ‘receiving the articles’, it’s also about the house assigning managers. Nancy has repeatedly said she won’t be able to do that until the senate decides on their process. It’s all so catch-22 absurd there’s no way it will go like they say.
Makes sense, I think Pelosi has gotten all of the mileage out of the hold that she can…new evidence came out, Bolton said he’d testify, and the Republicans look ever more like they will hold a sham trial. Her intent was to change the trial parameters into a real one, and the Republicans aren’t going to let that happen…holding longer just means giving Republicans more ammunition to make impeachment about hurting Trump instead of protecting the nation. Might as well let the Republicans have their sham trial, and then continue the investigations and see what else falls out.
If it was me, I’d wait to see if the Republicans call witnesses, then when they don’t see if Bolton says anything like “I’d love to testify” and then subpoena him…there is no difference between a House and Senate subpoena, if he ignores the former then he’s just part of the cover up. Then, just continue to investigate and press for information and documents…there is more out there that will come out before the election, having Republicans on record supporting Trump’s bad actions is going to hurt them in 2020 with independent voters and people who wanted a real trial.
Nancy Should wait to at least after the Superbowl. Better yet after the Wold Series.
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