President Donald J. Trump, joined by Treasury Secretary Steven
Mnuchin and Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, talks to members of the
press on the South Lawn of the White House Wednesday, July 29,
2020, prior to boarding Marine One to begin his trip to Texas.
(Official White House photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)
By Mary Rose Corkery
Daily Caller News Foundation
Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Tuesday that
former President Donald Trump’s impeachment will be unsuccessful
based on Tuesday’s vote in the Senate.
“If today’s Senate vote is any sign, the Democrats’
ridiculous impeachment of former President Trump will fail –
again – by a long shot. Dead on arrival,” Meadows tweeted.
“Good for @RandPaul and the 45 GOP Senators for standing
up,” Meadows tweeted.
If today’s Senate vote is
any sign, the Democrats’ ridiculous impeachment of former
President Trump will fail—again—by a long shot. Dead on
arrival.Good for @RandPaul
and the 45 GOP Senators for standing up.— Mark Meadows (@MarkMeadows) January
26, 2021
Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul forced a vote in the Senate
on Tuesday over the constitutional basis of Trump’s forthcoming
impeachment trial, the senator
said in a Tuesday Twitter thread.
“If we are about to try to impeach a President – where is
the Chief Justice? If the accused is no longer President – where
is the constitutional power to impeach him?” Paul tweeted.
“Private citizens don’t get impeached. Impeachment is for
removal from office, and the accused here has already left
office,” Paul tweeted.
All Senate Democrats and five Senate Republicans
voted to table the Kentucky senator’s motion, which means
impeachment is still proceeding. Senate Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell and most Republicans sided with Paul to toss out the
trial.
Democrats
require 17 of their Republican colleagues to break from their
party to convict Trump. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
said during a floor speech last week that Trump’s trial is
set to begin the week of Feb. 8.
The House
voted 232-197 on Jan. 13 to impeach Trump again, charging him
with a single article of “incitement of insurrection.” A mob
breached the Capitol building on Jan. 6 during a protest that
turned into a deadly riot against the
certification of the presidential election results.
Meadows was Trump’s last chief of staff and a former
Republican congressman for North Carolina,
according to The Hill.
Meadows didn’t immediately respond to a request for
comment.
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