An express impeachment without evidence or new witnesses

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Even before starting, he is doomed to fail, because the Democrats do not have the necessary votes so that the political trial against Donald Trump can prosper. But the impact that this historic 'impeachment' may have on the president's image, in the absence of only a few months for the elections, remains uncertain, and that is why his team of lawyers is doing everything in his power to make it An express process.

While the New York tycoon was absent from the country to participate in the World Economic Forum in Davos, all media attention was concentrated on Tuesday in Washington DC, where he formally started the process against Trump, already becoming the third president in the history of States United who ends up undergoing a political trial in the Senate, in his case accused of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

The options to end up being dismissed are void , because the Republicans control the upper house and because it would also take two thirds of the 100 senators to issue a guilty verdict. But the political damage it may cause is still to be seen and, therefore, the president's legal team, led by Pat Cipollone , has already begun to move to try to make the process 'express' and not witness new witnesses.

The one that worries Trump most is a possible appearance by his former national security adviser John Bolton , who a few weeks ago already made it clear that he is willing to testify if he is summoned by the Senate. In the absence of seeing how the process unfolds in the next few days, if he finally attends as a witness, the Republicans will demand that this testimony be classified and without cameras claiming security reasons, according to 'The Washington Post'.

"Some Republicans are saying that the Senate should not call new witnesses beyond those who already spoke in the House of Representatives. But the truth is that the Constitution gives the Senate the power to try an 'impeachment', not just the power to review them, but to try them, "the Democratic minority leader, Chuck Schumer , repeatedly claimed before the process formally began at the Capitol headquarters.

According to a CNN survey, the political trial against Trump does not arouse great interest among the people, although more than two thirds of the people consulted by that television channel thought that, at this point, the appearance of new ones should be accepted witnesses The truth is that the Democrats will press for the testimony of Bolton or the chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney , among others.

The historic day has started with the approval of a resolution presented by the leader of the Republican majority, Mitch McConnell , in which the rules governing the trial are established. Thus, the defense and the prosecution will have a total of 24 hours in the next three days to present their initial arguments. In addition, a clause that admits new evidence was also included , unless there is a vote that opposes such evidence.

Yesterday, the Trump team of lawyers (focused on his visit to Davos), had already sent a letter of more than a hundred pages in which they presented the 'impeachment' as a "dangerous perversion of the Constitution", so they demanded that their client be acquitted "immediately."

From the White House they have just sent a brief statement in which they criticized the Democrats for trying to discredit Cipollone, claiming that he should not represent Trump because he could be a material witness in the trial. "The idea that the president's lawyer has to deliver confidential information is absurd and to imply that he cannot represent the president is also absurd," according to his spokesman, Hogan Gidley .

But from the Democratic side they are not willing to miss this opportunity to damage the image of Trump, even knowing that this trial does not arouse great interest in the population. "There can be no defense for a president who sought interference from a foreign country in the elections to retain power, and then tried to cover it up by obstructing an investigation in Congress," they argued from the opposition.

For its part, the president of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi , lamented that the political trial is designed "deliberately" with rules that only seek, said "hide the truth" to the Senate and the Americans and hence criticize hard to Senator McConnell. "He knows that the president's misconduct is indefensible and demands his removal," he said.

But the greatest of all was the prosecutor who has led the process against Trump on Tuesday. "The Americans want a fair trial, they want to believe that their system of government is able to live up to the circumstances, they want to believe that it is possible to put aside partisan differences to do what is best for the country" , concluded Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff .

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