Impeachment is approaching, Trump forms a new team of lawyers US media: it is almost impossible for the Senate to convict
[Global Times Special Correspondent Lin Ri] After 5 lawyers left due to differences in defense strategies, former US President Trump announced on January 31 local time that two new lawyers will lead his team of lawyers in the Senate impeachment trial Defend yourself.
According to CNN, Trump insisted on focusing his defense on election fraud, which caused him to face difficulties in forming a team of lawyers.
As the impeachment date approaches, the disagreements caused by Trump in the Republican Party are further fermenting.
According to CNN, the two new lawyers are David Schon and Bruce Castor.
Schoen had previously represented Trump's long-time adviser Roger Stone in the case, and he also discussed the matter of agency defense with Epstein, a billionaire who was suspected of sexual assault and organized a huge sex trading network before committing suicide.
Castor is a former district attorney in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Earlier reports stated that as many as five lawyers left Trump’s defense team just over a week before the scheduled start of the impeachment trial. The reason was that Trump believed that he should start from the perspective of widespread fraud in the presidential election process. As a victim of election fraud, the team of lawyers believes that the defense should focus on questioning the legitimacy of the impeachment of the outgoing president. Trump is unwilling to discuss this defense idea with the lawyers.
There are also reports that Trump did not pay the five lawyers in advance or sign a letter of intent with them.
"Washington Post" stated that Trump's impeachment case will begin as early as February 9 in the Senate.
The Democrats will submit a summary of the lawsuit to the Senate on February 2, and Trump's defense team must submit a summary of the lawsuit before February 8.
Analysts generally believe that convictions of impeached persons must be supported by at least two-thirds of the senators. Given that the Democratic and Republican parties each control 50 seats in the Senate, it is almost impossible to achieve this goal.
However, the "Capitol Hill" reported that how to determine the future course of the Republican Party is now causing intense controversy within the party.
Some people argue that the Republican Party should abandon Trump and his populist brand, but others believe that Trump’s loyal supporters are still a key force of the Republican Party and now have a huge influence on the Republican Party. They try to punish or purge Those Republicans who they thought offended the former president.
"Capitol Hill" said that House Republican leader McCarthy called on members of the party to stop attacking each other.
He worries that if this is not done quickly, it will trigger a struggle within the party and may destroy their chances of regaining control of the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the presidency in the next few years.
According to a report from the Russian Satellite News Agency on the 1st, Trump was nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize by Jacques Madison, a member of the European Parliament from Estonia, because he was "the first American president who has not waged a war during his tenure in nearly 30 years."
Trump's son-in-law Kushner was also nominated.