The US Senate rejects the condemnation of Trump
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has revealed that he will vote against convicting Trump
On Saturday, the US Senate rejected the conviction of former US President Donald Trump, as he was acquitted of the charges against him for inciting a congressional blockade.
There were not enough votes to condemn Trump.
Earlier Saturday, Democrats and Trump's defense had reached an agreement that would allow to avoid calling witnesses and to continue the trial of former President Donald Trump, which is expected to end with the issuance of a ruling today.
The two sides announced the agreement during a public session of the Senate, which has been trying Trump since Tuesday on charges of "inciting rebellion."
And the Democratic prosecutors announced earlier that they wanted to hear the testimony of Democratic Representative Jim Herrera Butler, which would have prolonged the trial. It was agreed to convert her testimony to a statement.
The Senate voted in favor of hearing witnesses, which would lead to a delay in the trial and consequently delayed results.
This comes with the announcement by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell that he will vote to acquit him. According to McConnell, the trial aims to remove a president, but Trump is no longer in power, and therefore the trial lacks the legal basis for that.
With McConnell's acquittal, the majority of Republicans are expected to join him, and thus the required number of sixty-seven convictions will not be completed.
Democratic prosecutors decided to call a Republican witness. "We will summon a lot of witnesses in front of the Senate," Trump's defense team said.
On Saturday, McConnell revealed that he will vote against the conviction of former President Donald Trump. "I will vote for the acquittal," McConnell wrote in a message to colleagues reported by the media, making it extremely likely that Democrats will fail to secure a two-thirds majority in the Senate to convict Trump of incitement to revolt.
With this position, it is quite likely that Democrats will fail to secure a two-thirds majority in the Senate to convict Trump of inciting the revolt by his role in stirring up a crowd that besieged the Capitol headquarters on January 6.
Since the senators are split evenly between Democrats (50) and Republicans (50), 17 Republican senators with the Democrats should vote against Trump to convict him.
McConnell still wields great influence within his party, and his vote to acquit Trump will weigh heavily.
But the senior Republican official, who severed ties with the former president in December due to Trump's insistence that he was the victim of "theft" of the presidential election, indicated in his letter that he did not believe Trump was innocent of wrongdoing.
McConnell said in his letter, according to what was reported by the "Politico" website, "The constitution clearly states that a president who committed transgressions while exercising his duties can be prosecuted, even after leaving office."
And those in charge of impeachment in Congress have warned that acquitting Trump will open the way for future presidents to commit excesses in the final weeks of their presidency while not being held accountable.
The trial, which lasted about a week, provided a grim and graphic account of the riots on January 6 and their consequences for the nation, and especially on the senators, most of whom fled that day in fear for their lives.
House prosecutors argued that Trump's rallying cry to go to the Capitol and "fight hard" for his presidency as Congress was meeting on January 6 to ratify Joe Biden's election was part of an organized pattern of violent rhetoric and false allegations unleashed. To the mob. Five people were killed in these events.
