- I think it will go very fast. It is totally party colored. It's an invention. It's a story and everyone knows it's a complete story, Trump noted when he met media in the Oval Room on Thursday.

A few hours earlier, Adam Schiff, Democrat and chairman of the House House Intelligence Committee, had read out the two indictments that form the basis of the judicial process against Trump, before Senate members.

- By his conduct and in violation of the constitutional oath he made. . . If Donald Trump has abused the presidential power, Schiff began his speech, which also marked that the case passed to the next House, the Senate.

"Sad and tragic"

Adam Schiff also leads the House of Representatives group of seven members who represent the Democrats and who will act as "prosecutor" during the Senate judicial process.

The resolution to send the legal case against Trump to the Senate was voted through with the numbers 228 to 193 in the House of Representatives, a reflection of the Democrats' superiority in that House. Then, late Wednesday evening Swedish time, the formal accusations were signed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi.

"It is so sad, so tragic for our country, that the president has brought us all the way here by undermining our national security, breaking his oath of office and jeopardizing our electoral security," Pelosi said at the signing.

-This president will be held accountable (for his actions).

The two charges against the president concern abuse of power and attempts to impede Congress's work.

Unclear about witnesses

A few hours after Schiff read out the indictment, the Chief Judge of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, was sworn in as official chair of the judicial process. Then senators were sworn in to serve as jurors.

The trial itself will begin on Tuesday.

It is not yet determined whether witnesses will be called to the Senate trial.

To defeat and unseat a president requires a two-thirds majority in the Senate. Trump's Republicans have a majority in the House, which is why he is most likely to be acquitted.

No president has been ousted in this way, but Democrats Bill Clinton (1998) and Andrew Johnson (1868) were formally accused by the House of Representatives before being released by the Senate.