McConnell Confirms President Trump Will Not Be Removed From Office Before January 20

House Democrats, along with help from at least 10 Republican colleagues, might have successfully voted to impeach President Donald Trump for the second time in his administration, but it’s now highly likely that it was all for show, as the Senate Majority Leader just confirmed that his chamber will not be conducting any business between now and the end of Trump’s term on January 20.

According to CNN, McConnell issued a statement upon the House passing the resolution to impeach Trump, which will more than likely leave Trump’s critics — including those in the mainstream media — quite disappointed.

“Given the rules, procedures, and Senate precedents that govern presidential impeachment trials, there is simply no chance that a fair or serious trial could conclude before President-elect Biden is sworn in next week,” McConnell wrote.

In other words, Trump’s Senate impeachment trial will not likely begin until President-elect Joe Biden formally takes over the White House, which leads into completely uncharted territory as this particular scenario has never happened before in U.S. history.

McConnell’s revelation came on the heels of an earlier statement in which he denied reports that he was set on voting in favor of Trump’s impeachment conviction once it reached the upper chamber. In the statement, McConnell wrote that “while the press has been full of speculation, I have not made a final decision on how I will vote and I intend to listen to the legal arguments when they are presented to the Senate.”

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It’s no secret that if McConnell went ahead and voted in favor of convicting the president — whenever that may be — a number of moderate and anti-Trump Republicans would likely follow suit, opening virtually the only pathway that Democrats would have to secure two-thirds of the Senate for a successful conviction.

The only exception to having the Senate reconvene for a trial before January 20 would be if all 100 sitting senators vote to reconvene, which is about as likely as me winning the Mega Millions jackpot this week, as Trump still has many Republican allies in the Senate, including Sen. Ted Cruz.

Disputing that scenario — which should come as no surprise — was Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who claims that under a 2004 Senate rule, if both leaders of the upper chamber are in agreeance, they can compel the Senate to reconvene.

Schumer made that quite clear in a direct call-to-action on Wednesday after the House passed the impeachment vote.

“A Senate trial can begin immediately, with agreement from the current Senate Majority Leader to reconvene the Senate for an emergency session, or it will begin after January 19th. But make no mistake, there will be an impeachment trial in the United States Senate; there will be a vote on convicting the president for high crimes and misdemeanors; and if the president is convicted, there will be a vote on barring him from running again,” Schumer said.