Trump refuses to be impeached because he is no longer president

WASHINGTON – The former president of the United States, Donald Trump , rejected this Tuesday as “unconstitutional” the political trial to which he will be subjected in the Senate and where he is accused of committing a “treason of historical proportions ”, arguing that he is already out of his position.

In his formal response to the impeachment article presented by the House of Representatives, Trump also denied through his lawyers that he was “In a mistake of fact” when on January 6 he assured the followers who later stormed the Capitol that he had won the elections by a landslide victory.

Shortly before, the Democrats presented their case to the Senate in a brief to condemn former President Donald Trump for inciting his followers to carry out the riots in the Capitol, which left five dead, including a policeman.

In their brief, the nine Democratic impeachment prosecutors accuse Trump of endangering the foundations of democracy American leading his supporters into a “frenzy” “for the sole purpose of maintaining his position in the Presidency” despite his electoral defeat.

Trump was accused of attempting to usurp the Presidency

The impeachment article says that Trump was “uniquely responsible” for the chaos generated , for which he is blamed for serious crimes committed using the powers of his office, on his own political benefit and at the expense of the nation, something that, according to them, constitutionally justifies their conviction.

“Those who wrote the Constitution feared a president who would corrupt his position and spare no ‘efforts or means to be re-elected'” and they wrote it to avoid “opportunis tas “that threatened” civil disorder and the prompt seizure of power by a dictator ‘”, reads the letter.

” If you provoke an insurrection against a joint session of Congress after losing an election is not an imputable crime, it is difficult to imagine what it would be “, adds the letter.

For their part, The former governor’s lawyers deny in their brief that he has participated in “an insurrection or rebellion” against the country and defend that the Constitution “requires that a person really be in office to be accused, ”and Donald Trump“ is no longer ‘president’. ”

“ It is impossible for the Senate to comply with the clause of ‘he will be removed from office in case of impeachment for … ‘, so the current procedure before the Senate is void ab initio “, it indicates.

And regarding the sanction of” disqualification to occupy and enjoy a position ”, indicates that to achieve this, the Senate must first decide the dismissal.

Trump denies attempt to subvert the elections

The defense of the former president denies that Trump had “ever committed a violation of his oath of office”, as the prosecution argues, and defends that in his harangue to his followers, only “expressed his opinion that the electoral results were suspicious.”

From a month before the session of Congress interrupted by Trump’s followers was held, the lawyers recalled, the former president reiterated “that the results of the presidential elections were the product of a generalized fraud “, and the Constitution protects his right to express that opinion.

” There is insufficient evidence for a reasonable jurist to reach the conclusion “that the statements of the former president “They were accurate or not, so (Trump) denies that they are false,” add the lawyers, insisting on the accusations in founded that there was electoral fraud against the former president.

Trump also denies that his intention was to interfere with the counting of electoral votes. that would confirm in Congress the victory of his rival or have endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of government.

“The Senate lacks the competence to expel a man who does not occupy a position from office,” concludes Trump’s defense brief, in which the former governor asks the Senate to “absolve” him of the accusations raised in against him.

The impeachment trial against Trump is due to begin next week in the Senate and a minimum of 67 votes (two-thirds of the chamber) are required for a conviction, which would entail his disqualification, a number that seems unlikely given that Democrats and Republicans share 50 seats.

Trump is the first president in the US history in being subjected to two political trials during his tenure.