U.S. Senators swore in at the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. The event is broadcast on the website of the upper house of the American Congress.
It is noted that impeachment hearings in the Senate will begin with a preliminary session on February 8. The article on the basis of which the impeachment resolution was passed to Trump was “incitement to mutiny.”
Earlier, Trump began negotiations with lawyers to develop a defense strategy for the upcoming impeachment hearings in the US Senate. However, some law firms reportedly doubted they would be paid for services provided, and other lawyers refused to take the case out of their unwillingness to be associated with the January 6 Capitol riots.
On January 14, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach Trump in the wake of the recent riots in Washington. The last vote was the second attempt to remove the politician from office. He became the first US president to be impeached for the second time, especially after resigning. Democrats motivate the decision to impeach Trump, including by the fact that after the end of the process, he will not be able to run for president.
