The parliamentary trial of former US President Donald Trump begins today in the Senate on charges of incitement to revolt, and while Trump's legal team described the parliamentary trial as political and unconstitutional, prosecutors from the Democratic Party said that the former president had committed "the most serious violation of the constitution."

The French Press Agency reported that the leaders of the Republicans and Democrats said that they had reached an agreement with the legal team on the rules for the trial of the former president, which will begin today with a discussion at 1 pm local time (6:00 GMT), followed by a vote on the constitutionality of the trial itself because Trump is no longer president Since January 20.

Republican leader Mitch McConnell and Democrats, Chuck Schumer, added that the proceedings will begin on Wednesday, with each side receiving 16 hours distributed over two days.

According to the agreement, the trial will continue until sunset on Friday and then resume on Sunday afternoon.

The trial will stop on Saturday, as one of Trump's lawyers is Jewish.

Call witnesses

The agreement also states that if any party wants to summon witnesses, this matter must be subject to a vote, given that Trump rejected a request sent to him by prosecutors from the Democratic Party to hear his testimony under oath.

On January 13, the House of Representatives accused Donald Trump of "inciting the rebellion", following the storming of supporters of the former president into the Congress building on the 6th of the same month during the ratification session for the presidential election results that Trump lost.

The unprecedented storming of the Congress came after Trump spoke to a crowd of his supporters in Washington, echoing his doubts about the integrity of the presidential election, saying that it was rigged in the interest of his Democratic rival, Joe Biden.

Trump is the only US president to be charged twice, requiring a trial in the Senate, and he is the first president to face parliamentary accountability while he is out of power, which sparked controversy among legal experts, both rejected and supported.

Prosecution team

While the administrators of Trump's trial, who are members of the House of Representatives (the prosecution team), said that the evidence against him is conclusive, and that the former president's incitement to revolt is considered "the most serious constitutional crime ever committed by a president," Trump's legal team described his trial as merely a political and unconstitutional play.

The nine Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives who act as prosecutors hope to persuade the 100-member Senate to convict Trump, and ultimately prevent him from holding public office again.

Republican Senator Josh Holly criticizes the Democrats' trial of former President Donald Trump:

"I think this is unconstitutional ... the Senate does not have the power to try to convict a private citizen or a former president."

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To convict Trump in the Senate requires a two-thirds vote of its members, which is unlikely due to the rejection of the majority of Republicans in the House of Democrats who have a very small majority in the House (half plus one).

Trump's defense

However, the attorneys for the former president, David Shawn and Bruce Castor, wrote in a 78-page pleading that delivered to the Senate that "the indictment adopted by the House of Representatives is unconstitutional in many respects, and one of these aspects is sufficient to immediately consider it null and void."

Trump's legal team demanded an immediate withdrawal from the trial of the former president.

On Monday, US President Joe Biden entered the line of debate surrounding Trump's trial, saying that the former president had obtained an offer to testify before the Senate, but decided not to do so.

Biden declined to express his opinion on whether he supported Trump losing his political rights to run for government posts, noting that the Senate would decide that.

Separately, an official in the office of the Georgia state secretary told Reuters that the office had opened an official investigation into Trump's efforts to change the results of the presidential elections in the state, which were held in November 2020.

The opening of the investigation came after a January 2 phone call to Trump was recorded in which he pressured State Secretary Brad Ravensberger to change the state election results, based on false allegations of voter fraud.