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Joe Biden just broke his silence concerning Trump’s impeachment trial scheduled to start soon in the Senate and the left will not like what he had to say.
Biden said the Senate does not have the votes to convict Trump although he said the Dems should still go through with it because “I think it has to happen.”
“This nation also remains in the grip of a deadly virus and a reeling economy,” Joe Biden said earlier about Trump’s impeachment. “I hope that the Senate leadership will find a way to deal with their Constitutional responsibilities on impeachment while also working on the other urgent business of this nation.”
From CNN: President Joe Biden on Monday offered his most extensive comments since taking office on former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, telling CNN, “I think it has to happen.”
Biden made the comment during a brief one-on-one interview with CNN in the halls of the West Wing. He acknowledged the effect it could have on his legislative agenda and Cabinet nominees but said there would be “a worse effect if it didn’t happen.” Biden told CNN he believed the outcome would be different if Trump had six months left in his term, but said he doesn’t think 17 Republican senators will vote to convict Trump.
“The Senate has changed since I was there, but it hasn’t changed that much,” Biden said.
From Fox News: Raskin quoted from Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which he said “prohibits any person who has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States from holding any office under the United States.”
Biden told CNN that he does not believe that Senate Democrats will get 17 Republicans to vote to convict the former president. He said that his opinion might have been different if Trump remained in office for a few more months.
Republican denunciations of Trump have cooled since the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Instead, Republicans are presenting a tangle of legal arguments against the legitimacy of the trial and questioning whether Trump’s repeated demands to overturn Joe Biden’s election really amounted to incitement.
NEW: President Biden offers his most extensive comments yet on impeachment, telling @kaitlancollins: "I think it has to happen," Biden said. He acknowledged the effect a trial could have on his agenda and nominees, but said there would be "a worse effect if it didn't happen.
— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) January 26, 2021
Biden says Trump impeachment ‘has to happen’ even if it affects his agenda https://t.co/U4FwkoJbjW
— The Independent (@Independent) January 26, 2021
