President Joe Biden on Monday dealt a blow to Senate Democrats when he said in an interview that it looks like they will not be able to convict former President Trump – again – during an impeachment trial.
House Democrats presented an impeachment article to the Senate on Monday night.
Representative Jamie Raskin, D-Md., One of nine House Democrats appointed as prosecutors at the oncoming trial, read the impeachment article in the Senate floor.
Raskin cited Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which he said “prohibits anyone who has” been involved in an 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 condemn the former president. He said his opinion might have been different if Trump remained in office for a few more months.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPLICATION
Trump’s Republican denunciations have cooled since the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill. Instead, Republicans are presenting a tangle of legal arguments against the legitimacy of the trial and questioning whether Trump’s repeated demands to overthrow Joe Biden’s election really constituted an incitement.
“The Senate has changed since I was there, but it hasn’t changed much,” said Bidden. Biden, however, said he agreed with Democrats that the trial “has to happen”.
Thomas Barrabi of Fox News and the Associated Press contributed to this report