{"id":102632,"date":"2021-01-26T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=102632"},"modified":"2021-01-26T19:12:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T00:12:09","slug":"sen-paul-trump-impeachment-trial-is-dead-on-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-paul-trump-impeachment-trial-is-dead-on-arrival\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen Paul: Trump impeachment trial is dead on arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsen-paul-trump-impeachment-trial-is-dead-on-arrival%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=102632&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"373\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/AP21026731081103-1-373x210.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2360831\" style=\"width: 787px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2360831\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2360831\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/AP21026731081103-1-777x437.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"777\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2360831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this image from video, Sen. Rand Paul, (R-Ky.), made a motion that the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump is unconstitutional in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. (Senate Television via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>\nUPDATED 4:00 PM PT \u2013 Tuesday, January 26, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said the Trump impeachment trial is &#8220;dead on arrival&#8217; as 45 senators voted that it is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>A motion brought by Paul failed 55-45 on Tuesday after five Republican senators voted with Democrats. These senators included Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Senate just voted 55-45 to reject Sen. Paul&#039;s argument that the impeachment trial of former President Trump is unconstitutional. <\/p>\n<p>Republicans joining Democrats were: Collins, Murkowski, Romney, Toomey, Sasse<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Luke Broadwater \u2600\ufe0f (@lukebroadwater) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lukebroadwater\/status\/1354162670296059904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Paul introduced the resolution in an effort to challenge the impeachment as unconstitutional, saying you cannot impeach a non-sitting president. He called the trial a &#8220;kangaroo court&#8221; and slammed the Democrat majority for wasting time on a sham impeachment<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Instead of doing the nation&#8217;s work with their new majorities in the House, the Senate and the executive branch, Democrats are wasting the nation&#8217;s time on a partisan vendetta against a man no longer in office,&#8221; Paul stated, &#8220;It&#8217;s almost as if they have no ability to exist except in opposition to Donald Trump. Without him as their boogie man, they might have to legislate and to actually convince Americans that their policy prescriptions are the right ones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, Paul said the group who voted in favor of his resolution is more than enough to acquit President Trump as at least 17 Republicans would have to vote with Democrats to convict.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Senate just voted on my constitutional point of order.  <\/p>\n<p>45 Senators agreed that this sham of a \u201ctrial\u201d is unconstitutional. <\/p>\n<p>That is more than will be needed to acquit and to eventually end this partisan impeachment process.<\/p>\n<p>This \u201ctrial\u201d is dead on arrival in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/1354163711917903872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) voted in favor of Paul&#8217;s motion.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/house-democrats-push-election-legislation-prohibiting-states-from-requiring-identification\/\">House Democrats Push Election Legislation Prohibiting States From Requiring Identification<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this image &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181137,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/AP21026731081103-1-373x210.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Sen Paul: Trump impeachment trial is dead on arrival","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/AP21026731081103-1-373x210.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Sen Paul: Trump impeachment trial is dead on arrival","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}