Pelosi and Democrat leaders in the House have held back from opening impeachment proceedings against Trump. One important reason is that Trump's Republican Party controls the US Senate which would have to conduct a trial and vote to convict the president if the Democratic-controlled House voted to impeach. "Two-thirds of the Senate will never agr...
Pelosi and Democrat leaders in the House have held back from opening impeachment proceedings against Trump. One important reason is that Trump's Republican Party controls the US Senate which would have to conduct a trial and vote to convict the president if the Democratic-controlled House voted to impeach.
"Two-thirds of the Senate will never agree to convict and then to have him waving a non-conviction in front of the voters next year and say, 'I am not guilty of everything', simply because a political group decided he wasn't, that's not what we are going to do," Representative Jim Clyburn, the number three Democrat leader in the House, recently told Al Jazeera.
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