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Trump's Impeachment Trial Not on Saturday Due to Sabbath

Trump’s Impeachment Trial Not on Saturday Due to Sabbath

The impeachment process in the US Senate against Donald Trump, who has not been president for about three weeks, will, in any case, be interrupted on Friday evening.

 

If the Senate has not settled the matter by then, the senators are holding a rest day at the request of a Jewish lawyer for Trump, David Schoen. Schoen argued that he wishes to respect the Sabbath, the Jewish day of rest.

The Democrats’ leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, has said Schoen’s request is being met, according to American media.

On Tuesday, the Senate begins the process by which the Democrats hope to prevent the Republican ex-president Trump from making a political comeback.

He received 74 million votes in November, the highest number ever received by a Republican candidate and eleven million more votes than 2016. The Democrats have argued that Trump incited protesters in his speech on January 6 to storm the Capitol and that he must therefore be deposed and stay out of politics.

But there is not enough support in the Senate to achieve that goal, according to US media, and Republican senators complain that it is a waste of time and should be over quickly. Republican Senator Bill Cassidy calls it “a Soviet Union-style show trial.” Schoen and colleague Bruce Castor have said the trial is a “public relations stunt” by Democrats.

According to lawyers, Trump’s most controversial statement did not involve the Capitol’s storming but was part of a political speech in which he disputed the election results. Trump said, “If you don’t fight hard, you’ll run out of land.” He also said there must be “peaceful and patriotic” fighting.

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