Impeachment In Limbo As House Speaker Pelosi Refuses To Pass To The US Senate The Articiles Of Impeachment And Congress Heads Home For The Holidays



Daily Mail: Mitch McConnell threatens to CANCEL Donald Trump's Senate trial if 'scared' Nancy Pelosi does not hand over 'slapdash' articles of impeachment - as Speaker slams him as a 'ROGUE leader' and president gloats he will be cleared by 'default'

* Nancy Pelosi forced the Trump impeachment across the finish line Wednesday
* Now the process moves to a U.S. Senate trial but Pelosi said she's in no hurry
* She blasted Senate leader Mitch McConnell for saying he's not an 'impartial' juror, and declared she won't hand him the baton without a pledge of 'fairness'
* Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is pushing for witness subpoenas that Republicans don't want to agree to
* Impeachment trial can't start until Pelosi and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy choose 'managers' to carry the House's case to the Senate
* McConnell slammed Pelosi in a floor speech and warned the Senate's more patient pace will have a 'calming' influence after 'slapdash' impeachment
* President Donald Trump warned that '[t]he Do Nothing Party want to Do Nothing with the Articles & not deliver them to the Senate, but it's Senate's call!'

Mitch McConnell threatened on Thursday to cancel Donald Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate if 'scared' Nancy Pelosi refuses to send him the formal articles of impeachment that Democrats passed Wednesday night.

The Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority leader went to war over next steps in the impeachment process, with Pelosi slamming McConnell as a 'rogue leader'⁠—and he blasted her indictment of the president as 'slapdash' and 'unfair.'

The dispute exploded into the open the morning after Democrats voted to impeach Trump, with the president bragging he could prevaIl by 'default.'

'If the Do Nothing Democrats decide, in their great wisdom, not to show up, they would lose by Default!,' Trump argued on Twitter of his upcoming Senate trial, which is now in doubt.

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WNU Editor: Senate Majority leader McConnell is not going to give up his position and power as Majority Leader of the Senate to US Speaker Pelosi or to the Senate Democrat minority. Doubly so in this case since it appears

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