Sen. Patrick Leahy To Preside Over Trump’s Senate Impeachment Trial

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Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., will president over former President Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate, a Senate source says.

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House impeachment managers will deliver the article of impeachment to the Senate Monday evening, and the trial is scheduled to begin the week of Feb. 8.

On Jan. 13, Trump became the only president in U.S. history to be impeached twice by the U.S. House of Representatives. House Democrats brought one article of impeachment — «incitement of insurrection» — related to remarks he made to a crowd loyal to him Jan. 6 that resulted in a fatal riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Trump, the first one-term president since George H.W. Bush in the 1990s, lost the November election to Biden, but has repeatedly and baselessly challenged the results citing little or false evidence.