Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia.
On Tuesday (9), the U.S. Senate launched the second Trump impeachment trial, with the prosecution and defense debating whether impeachment is unconstitutional. On the same day, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Texas) criticized the congressional shocks for undermining a congressional challenge that Republican lawmakers had been preparing for days, suggesting that the shocks had nothing to do with Trump.
The impeachment trial began in the Senate at 1 p.m. local Time on Tuesday. Democrats said the reason for initiating impeachment was that Trump “incited the violent attack on Congress on Jan. 6.
According to a bipartisan agreement reached in the Senate on the 8th, the prosecution and defense – the House impeachment manager and Trump’s lawyers – will each have 16 hours to present their case. And given Trump’s status as a former president, there will be four hours of debate on the constitutionality of impeachment on the first day, and then the Senate will vote on whether to proceed.
To finally pass impeachment, two-thirds of the Senate’s 100 members would need to vote in favor of it. When the vote on the constitutionality of impeachment was held on January 26, 45 Republican lawmakers voted in favor of the “unconstitutionality of the impeachment” issue.
Some Republicans have criticized the impeachment as a “farce” in the end. Among the critics is Republican Rep. Greene.
In a series of tweets on Tuesday, Green said the impeachment was a “circus for the Democratic media thugs” to “entertain the people they have brainwashed and addicted to hate.
She also criticized the organizers of the Jan. 6 congressional storming: “The attack undermined the challenge we spent weeks preparing for and ruined our efforts to reach Trump and his constituents.”
She continued, “The night before (the storming of Congress), they placed bombs at both the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee. They didn’t just target one party. They were targeting Republicans and Democrats. They were fighting the entire government.”
Greene was referring to the fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) claimed on Jan. 6 that bombs had been found in two separate buildings at the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee. Only later did the FBI announce that the bombs had been placed in the buildings on the evening of Jan. 5.
According to media reports, those who stormed Congress included members of the far-left Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa. These groups are accused of regularly staging violent anti-government protests, which have continued after Biden took office.
On the afternoon of Jan. 6, as Republicans were challenging the results of the disputed state election and holding debates and testimony, a large group of protesters stormed the Capitol and forced the session to be suspended. When the session resumed that evening, congressional leaders began to denounce the riots and rushed through the certification of the general election.
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