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2020-01-23 15:58
On the 22nd local time, the impeachment trial of the US Senate against US President Trump entered the opening statement stage. The prosecution and defense engaged in a heated confrontation over the first day's trial process, followed by democrats accusing Trump of corruption in their opening statements and asking the Senate to impeach him. For the impeachment trial, in addition to sarcastically saying that he "also wants to participate", Trump also forwarded a paragraph of "BB Bird and Crooked Wolf" "starring" by himself on social media Twitter, in which Trump was portrayed as a clever BB bird, while Adam Schiff, the impeachment manager appointed by U.S. House Speaker Pelosi and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, became a cunning but useless crooked wolf.
According to the British "Daily Mail" reported on the 22nd, Trump, who returned to the United States from the Davos Forum in Switzerland on the same day, forwarded an adapted "BB Bird and Crooked Wolf" cartoon on Twitter. The animation was first tweeted by White House social media director Dan Skavino.
The 90-second cartoon satirizes the impeachment case launched by U.S. Democrats against Trump. In the animation, Trump is the clever "Trump · BB Bird"; on the other hand, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Schiff's face is placed on the head of a cunning wolf bent on eating BB Bird. Of course, the result of the "BB Bird and crooked wolf" battle of wits and courage is still that the former wins without a fight, and the latter lifts a stone to drop his own feet and begs for food.
At the end of the animation, "Trump's 2020 'Going Forward' Express Train" completely crushed "Schiff Crooked Wolf".
On the 21st local time, the US Senate began to hear Trump's impeachment case, the first day of the trial lasted nearly 13 hours, Senate Democratic leader Schumer expressed dissatisfaction with the trial process, and proposed a number of amendments.
The amendments include requiring subpoenas to be issued to the White House, the Department of State, the Department of Defense, and the White House Budget Office to obtain impeachment documents, and to summon four current and former White House officials to testify.
After more than 12 hours of fierce confrontation and closed-door discussion, and 11 votes to reject the amendments proposed by the Democratic Party, the Republican-controlled US Senate voted to pass the impeachment trial process resolution against President Trump in the early morning of the 22nd local time, which means that the Senate will only consider calling witnesses after the prosecution and defense have completed their opening statements.
In the specific opening statement on the 22nd, The Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee serving as the representative of the prosecution, Democratic Rep. Schiff accused Trump of suspected corruption, abusing his power to pressure Ukraine for re-election, and obstructing the Congressional investigation, and urged that the Senate should remove Trump.
Schiff said Trump had put pressure on Ukrainian President Zelenskiy. "Trump demanded foreign interference in our democratic elections, and he abused his power to seek foreign assistance to increase his chances of winning re-election," he noted. This is allegedly the main basis for Democrats to argue that Trump should be found guilty and removed.
According to the trial process resolution passed on the same day, from the 22nd local time, the Democratic Party has 3 days and 24 hours to make statements on the reasons for impeaching Trump, and after the prosecution's statement is over, the white house will be composed of a team of lawyers to defend Trump.
For the Senate trial, Trump, who was attending the Davos Forum in Switzerland, said on the same day that he hoped to attend the Senate trial when preparing to return to Washington, the US capital. He said, "I'd love to go, I kind of want to sit in the first row and stare at their depraved faces." (But) I think they (lawyers) might have an opinion. "
According to Reuters, Trump also said that he hopes that current and former senior White House officials can testify in court, even if the impeachment trial time is extended.
He said that although the proceedings are left to the Senate, he personally wants to let former US National Security Adviser Bolton and current US Secretary of State Pompeo appear in court.
At the same time, Trump also described the impeachment case as a "hoax" and unfavorable to the United States at a press conference on the same day, and praised the performance of the defense lawyer team on the first day of the trial.
On December 18, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass two articles of impeachment accusing Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Trump became the third president in U.S. history to be impeached by the House of Representatives.
On January 21, 2020, the US Senate officially began hearing Trump's impeachment case.
(Editor: Chen Xian)