Former President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial begins Feb. 9, and while an acquittal is near certain as 17 Republicans would have to join all Democrats in voting to convict, testimony will be presented in the upper chamber seeking to prove Trump’s role in “incitement to insurrection” in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach.
Last month, the House voted 232–197, including 10 Republicans, to impeach Trump for allegedly inciting an insurrection. Trump has said that he didn’t issue any calls for violence during the Capitol incident. In his speech on Jan. 6, Trump called on supporters to “peacefully and patriotically” make their voices heard during the joint session of Congress, when lawmakers convened to consider electoral votes cast for the presidential candidates.
