Nancy Pelosi delays Trump trial to make Senate rules ‘fair’
Republicans, however, say the Democrats are worried about ‘their shoddy work product’ in the impeachment articles
19 December 2019 - 18:08
Washington — US President Donald Trump and his allies taunted House speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday over her unexpected suggestion that she would refrain from sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate until she secured changes in the rules for the trial in that chamber.
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor on Thursday that Pelosi and House Democrats “may be too afraid to even transmit their shoddy work product to the Senate” and Trump tweeted that the “Do Nothing Party want to Do Nothing with the Articles.”..
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