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Congressional House of Representatives prosecutors have appealed to former President Donald Trump with a demand to testify in the Senate as part of his impeachment process. They wanted to question Trump about his actions on January 6, the day of the assault on the Capitol, as well as in the period from February 8 to 11. An adviser to the former president said that the process initiated as part of the impeachment was unconstitutional.
Former President of the United States Donald Trump will not testify under oath in the United States Senate as part of his impeachment proceedings. Trump’s adviser Jason Miller told CNN.
According to Miller, Trump refuses to participate in the “unconstitutional process.”
House attorneys ask Trump to testify in Senate after his lawyers presented a response to the impeachment ruling, “denying the concrete facts about the president’s actions on January 6.”
Trump was supposed to testify about his actions on January 6, the day of the assault on the Capitol, February 8-11. There was supposed to be a cross-examination.
Trump’s lawyers say that with this letter the congressmen “confirmed that they cannot prove the accusations” against the 45th president of the United States, the Financial Times quoted the lawyers.
On January 31, Trump appointed two new attorneys to lead the defense in the impeachment trial, after the previous defense team refused to participate in the impeachment just a week before kickoff due to disagreements over the line of impeachment. defending.
Trump faces impeachment for the events of January 6, when he urged his supporters to go to the Congress building, where at that time Joe Biden was to be declared the winner of the election. As a result, protesters stormed the Congress building. The riots killed five people among them there is a police officer Capitol, and in Washington, for that, they announced state of emergency.
After that, the House of Representatives, the lower house of the United States Congress, in a meeting on January 13, voted to impeach Trump. The authors of the resolution brought an accusation against him: incitement to riots.
The resolution did not make it to the Senate until January 19, when the last meeting of the upper house of Congress took place before Biden’s inauguration. Since January 20, Trump is no longer president of the United States. However, if he is found guilty, the Senate can vote again and take away his right to hold any federal office, that is, prohibit him from running for president again. Also, if convicted, Trump will be deprived of presidential benefits.
On January 25, the House of Representatives passed a resolution to the Senate impeaching Trump.
This is the second attempt to impeach Trump. The first time the procedure was initiated in September 2019. It was caused by a scandal that began following the publications of The Washington Post and The New York Times about the possible pressure of the head of the White House on the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky during a phone conversation on July 25. In a conversation with him, Trump raised the question of investigating the activities in Ukraine of Hunter Biden, son of the former vice president, his presidential rival, Joe Biden. Zelenskiy promised Trump that the new Ukrainian attorney general would “analyze the situation.” As a result, the House of Representatives indicted him and the Senate rejected both charges.
Trump became the third leader in American history to be indicted and the only one to be indicted twice by the House of Representatives. Before him, the proceedings against Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were carried out.
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