President Joe Biden meets with some governors and mayors at the White House on Feb. 12, 2021.
President Joe Biden said Friday (Feb. 12) that he has not discussed a vote on the former president’s impeachment with any Republican senators, though he did hint at how he would like them to vote.
“I’m interested to see what my Republican friends will do,” Biden told the press outside the White House. “If they come out (against Trump).
Biden said he does not plan to talk to any Republican senators or convey what he thinks senators should do.
Since Biden took office, media interviews have been cut off after each answer to two questions.
Biden told media reporters inside the Oval Office on Thursday (11) that he guessed that “some minds may change” during the impeachment trial.
Unless 67 senators vote to convict Trump (Trump), Trump will be acquitted. Thirty-five Republicans have already said or pledged to vote not guilty, and some Republican senators have said they will wait for statements during the trial before making a decision.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki later told the media, “He (Biden) wasn’t going to give a prediction or a prognosis, he just gave a very human and emotional reaction, the same way many people do, the way many people feel, I should say, when they see the video.
Biden is the president, he’s not an expert,” Psaki said earlier this week.
She added, “He’s not going to comment on the back and forth that’s going on in the Senate, and he’s not watching those debates.
After the impeachment delegates showed video footage of the Jan. 6 congressional storming, Psaki said Biden “was touched as an individual by the content of the video and he was confident in the role that the impeachment delegates and others would play.
Trump’s defense attorneys are scheduled to open their defense on Friday, after the impeachment delegates spent days laying out their articles of impeachment against Trump.
Trump was impeached by the House on charges of inciting an uprising. Democrats say Trump has repeatedly accused election fraud and asked supporters to “fight to the death” and sparked the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol.
For their part, Trump defense attorneys said Trump told supporters to keep the peace, and the violence was already happening at the Capitol before Trump had finished his speech two miles away.
If Trump is convicted, senators could choose to bar him from holding public office again. Top Democrats say preventing him from running in 2024 is a key issue.
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