The Impeachment Wild Cards Trump Confronts in a Senate Trial
- Senate leaders face decisions on witnesses and procedures
- McConnell sees no chance Senate would vote to convict Trump
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President Donald Trump has openly cheered for the impeachment process to move to the friendlier confines of the GOP-led Senate, but there may be some surprises in store for him on the way to a likely acquittal.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said it’s “inconceivable” at this point that the Senate will convict Trump on any articles of impeachment sent over from the House. It would take at least 20 Republican votes -- along with all Democrats -- to form the two-thirds majority required to remove Trump, and at present there are exactly zero.