Today the Senate basically had a test vote, it appears based on the numbers that they don't have enough votes to impeach Trump (Constitutionality aside for the moment). Chess game. House Impeaches requiring Senate to hold trial. The Articles of Impeachment called out insurrection but also the fact that President Trump challenged the 2020 election results. Now everyone is ready for a trial so that the Presidents team can call out all the election fraud examples, before a public, probably world-wide audience. Here is my question. What prevents Chucky Schumer from shutting down the possibility of the trial, in lieu of today's vote. Everyone is hitching their cart to this trial horse. If it doesn't happen, and I'm not a legal scholar here, what's next? Moves and countermoves...
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Not as a direct charge, but the articles start off with a background "In the months preceding the Joint Session, President Trump repeatedly issued false statements asserting that the Presidential election results were the product of widespread fraud..."