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The U.S House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House won’t appoint managers to deliver impeachment articles against the U.S President Donald Trump to the U.S Senate until more is known about how his trial will be run. Pelosi tweeted on Monday, “The House cannot choose our impeachment managers until we know what sort of trial the Senate will conduct. Trump has blocked his own witnesses and documents from the House, and from the American people, on phony complaints about the House process”. She was responding to a Trump’s morning Twitter statement. Trump complained in his Twitter message, he said, “She was crying for fairness in the Senate, and breaking all rules while doing so after giving him the most unfair trial in the history of the U.S Congress”.

 But, Trump’s claim that he was given a trial of any kind in the House flies in the face of American constitutional history. It is noteworthy that the country’s founding document gives the U.S Senate a sole power to conduct impeachment trials. The decision of Pelosi to discontinue from presenting the impeachment articles which the House approved against Trump for abusing his power by withholding 391 million U.S dollars in military aid to Ukraine. Trump was alleged to force the Ukrainian President to start an investigation against one of his political rivals. He was also alleged for obstructing Congress by ordering administration officials to not cooperate with the House’s impeachment inquiry.

It is important that Senate Majority Leader McConnell said he would be coordinating the conduct of any Senate trial with the Counsel’s office of the White House. He said, “This is a serious matter even though the majority leader in the United States Senate says it is ok for the foreman of the jury to be in cahoots with lawyers of the accused”. Trump and his allies have claimed the failure of Democrats to transmit the impeachment articles in the U.S Senate. It is a clear indication that the impeachment case against the U.S President is weak. Point to be noted that Democrats need guarantees that trial procedures in the U.S Senate should allow witness testimony. These witnesses include many Republicans such as McConnell and Lindsey Graham.