JUST IN: 'I want an immediate trial!' President Trump tweets amid reports that Democrats could choose to wait indefinitely to transmit the articles of impeachment against the president to the US Senate.
The House, however, completed its last votes of the year earlier on Thursday. And McConnell said Thursday that Senators need not return to Washington for votes until Jan. 6, 2020. That may mean that the “impasse” could stretch into the new year, delaying the start of Trump’s Senate trial.
"Until we can get some assurances from the majority leader that he is going to allow for a fair and impartial trial to take place, we would be crazy to walk in there knowing he set up a kangaroo court," he said. Democrats said if Trump is above accountability for his conduct outlined in the articles, impeachment will become meaningless. Republicans, meanwhile, said that if Trump can be impeached for that conduct, all future presidents are likely to be subjected to impeachments.
"Looks like the prosecutors are getting cold feet in front of the entire country and second-guessing whether they even want to go to trial," McConnell said, trashing the"comical" idea that Democrats will now"sit on their hands." The first article charges Trump for pushing Ukraine to announce probes into former Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden and Democrats at the same time he was withholding nearly $400 million in military aid and an official White House visit for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. The second article charges Trump with obstructing the House's investigation into that conduct.
"Pelosi doesn't dictate what happens in the Senate," the official said."She can’t hold hostage to negotiate the terms in the Senate."
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