A SECOND IMPEACHMENT FOR A MEGALOMANIAC?

Mitch McConnell says Trump's second Senate impeachment trial would begin on Biden's inauguration day - as Democrats race to start hearings so he can be banned from office for life and calls grow for him to resign

 

Daily Mail

January 9, 2021

 

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told his Republican colleagues in the upper chamber that the earliest a second impeachment trial of President Trump  would begin is January 20th, the day President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn into office. 

House Democrats are planning to impeach Trump with a single impeachment article charging him with 'incitement of insurrection' as anger swells over the ransacking of the United States Capitol by a mob inspired by the president. 

Democrats are demanding the Trump resign or face impeachment while just a handful of Republicans signaled they are willing to consider voting in favor of removing the president or barring him from office for life. 

Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has demanded that the president resign while her fellow Republican, Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, has said that he will 'definitely consider' any articles of impeachment brought by the House.

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Lindsey Graham begs Joe Biden to order Nancy Pelosi not to impeach Donald Trump again, warning it 'will destroy the country even further'

 

Lindsey Graham has begged Joe Biden to call off a second impeachment, insisting that Donald Trump should be given credit for having made a 'helpful' statement, and pleading with Biden that impeachment 'will destroy the country even further.' 

The South Carolina senator appeared on Sean Hannity's Fox News show on Friday night, hours after the articles of impeachment were unveiled.

House Democrats are planning to impeach Trump with a single impeachment article charging him with 'incitement of insurrection'. 

The move is on a hyper-fast track after Wednesday's Capitol riot – with the article set to be introduced Monday.  

A draft of the article prepared by Reps. David Cicilline, Ted Lieu, and Jamie Raskin states that, 'Incited by Trump, a mob unlawfully breached the Capitol,' injured law enforcement, menaced lawmakers and the vice president, and interfered with the count of the Electoral College.  

But Graham, looking shaken, urged Biden to call his colleagues and tell them not to proceed. 

'I wanted President Trump to win so badly,' Graham admitted.

'Now, tonight, I am calling on President-elect Biden to pick up the phone and call Nancy Pelosi and the squad to end the second impeachment.

'President Trump gave a statement last night that was helpful. It hit the mark. He wants to move on to a peaceful transfer of power. He wants this to end.'

Graham, a regular golfing partner of the president's, said he had spent the day with the increasingly-isolated Trump, who since Wednesday has had two Cabinet members and a series of officials resign in disgust at his incitement of the rioters.

On Friday evening had his Twitter page deleted permanently, which will likely add to his fury. 

'I've been with him most of the day; he's going to focus on his agenda and his successes for the American people, in the next few days,' said Graham, attempting to hold out an olive branch on behalf of Trump.

'Joe Biden said it's up to Congress regarding impeachment. 

'No, President-elect Biden, it's up to you. 

'Pick up the phone and call Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and the squad and tell them: stand down; this will destroy the country even further.

'You have the power to do that. The question is, do you have the courage to do it.'