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The U.S. president has acknowledged that Senate debates, which will open in two weeks, will disrupt his agenda, but he does not expect his predecessor to be convicted. The indictment was officially filed tonight: "Incited an uprising against the U.S. government." Republican senator: "Can Obama be prosecuted in the future?"


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Biden: The Trump trial must happen, but do not believe he will be convicted

The U.S. president has acknowledged that Senate debates, which will open in two weeks, will disrupt his agenda, but he does not expect his predecessor to be convicted. The indictment was officially filed tonight: "Incited an uprising against the U.S. government."

Republican senator: "Can Obama be prosecuted in the future?"

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Tuesday, 26 January 2021, 11:20

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In video: Senate approves postponing Trump trial by two weeks (Photo: Reuters, Edited by Assaf Drori)

US President Joe Biden said tonight (Tuesday) that former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial "must happen" despite the expected disruption in the advancement of his government's policies and appointments.

This is after the House of Representatives filed the indictment against him in the Senate ahead of the start of his second trial in two weeks.



"I think it has to happen," Biden said in a brief interview with CNN from the White House.

"It would be worse if it did not happen," he said.

However, he noted that he does not expect there to be enough Republican support to convict Trump, which requires a two-thirds majority of one hundred senators.

Biden added that the outcome might have been different if Trump had continued in office.



As part of the ceremonial proceedings at Capitol Hill, nine Democratic representatives from the House of Representatives, who will serve as prosecutors at the trial, accompanied by the House of Representatives official and the actual security officer, filed the indictment in the Senate on the same route Trump supporters took on Jan. 6.

They wore masks due to the Corona epidemic.



Upon the group's arrival in the Senate, the head of the prosecution team, Jamie Raskin, read out the charge of inciting an uprising against Trump.

"Donald John Trump was involved in serious crimes and misdemeanors when he incited violence against the United States government," he said.

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The trial will obscure the beginning of his term.

Biden, yesterday (Photo: Reuters)

Ten Republicans in the House of Representatives voted in favor of ousting Trump on Jan. 13, but Senate Democrats need the support of 17 senators to convict the former president and prevent him from running for another term in the future.

However, that goal seems very far-fetched in light of continued loyalty to Trump among the Republican Party's conservative support base.



More than 30 Democrats were present in the Senate to hear Raskin's remarks, but only three Republicans: Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Sen. Mitt Romney and Sen. Roger Marshall, who was elected to office last November.

The 100 seats in the Senate are divided equally between Democrats and Republicans, and Vice President Camela Harris, who is a tiebreaker, gives Democrats actual control.



About three weeks after the attack on the Capitol, which ended in five deaths, thousands of National Guard soldiers are still deployed in Washington, D.C., though thousands more returned to their homes after Biden's inauguration last week.

Security remained high.



Trump is the only president to be ousted twice by the House of Representatives, and he will be the first to face trial in the Senate after his term ends.

During the trial, one hundred senators will serve on a jury, and the person who will run it is the oldest senator, 80-year-old Democratic Patrick Leahy, who was first elected in 1974.

He holds the title of interim president of the Senate.



A source in the Senate said that although the constitution stipulates that the president of the Supreme Court is the one who is supposed to serve as president, the removal of a presiding president will be a senator who will head him in a case against a former president.

Despite his official role, Leahy is also expected to vote as senators do in other cases where they hold hearings.

The House of Representatives' Democratic Prosecutors file the indictment against Trump in the Senate tonight (Photo: Reuters)

Some Republican lawmakers oppose the impeachment law, arguing it would violate the Constitution.

"I still have reservations about the constitutionality of this, and the precedent in trying to convict a private citizen," Republican Sen. Johnny Ernst said.

"In the future, could it be used against President Obama?" She asked.



Senate Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer dismissed the allegations.

"The theory that the Senate cannot prosecute former officials is equivalent to a constitutional exit ticket for every president," a guard told the Senate.

He promised that the trial, which was postponed for two weeks to give Trump's lawyers time to prepare for it and allow Biden to advance his appointments, would be short.



The trial will focus on a speech Trump gave to supporters near the White House, shortly before the money stormed the Capitol and disrupted the debate confirming Biden's victory in the election.

Members of Congress fled the shelters, and a police officer was killed during the riot.



During his speech, Trump reiterated the false lies in the election and called on his supporters to take a step toward the Capitol, "stop the theft," "demonstrate power," "fight harder," and enforce "very different laws."



Senior Republican officials have condemned the violence and some have accused Trump of inciting it.

Romney, the only Republican senator who voted in favor of Trump's conviction during his first trial in the Ukraine-Gate affair, said on Sunday that the trial is necessary due to the fact that the masses are being held by Trump.



A Reuters poll on Friday found that 51 percent of Americans believe the Senate should convict Trump, according to the division along party lines.

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