After the House voted Wednesday for President Trump’s indictment, President Biden said the chamber held the president ‘accountable’ and asked the Senate to fulfill its ‘constitutional responsibilities’ over indictment – along with ‘others’. urgent matters’.
“Today, in a dual vote, the House voted to call President Trump to justice and hold him accountable,” Biden tweeted hours after the 232-197 vote, accusing Trump of “inciting insurgency.” “Now the process continues to the Senate – and I hope they will handle their constitutional responsibilities on indictment while also working on the other urgent matters of this country.”
Many Democrats have insisted on a second indictment of Trump after a crowd of his supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6 in an unsuccessful attempt to stop the certification of Biden’s Electoral College.
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Biden has mostly kept quiet about whether he supports accusations. He plans to adopt amid a rise in coronavirus cases, a slow vaccine deployment and an economy struggling to recover amid the pandemic.
Since Biden will take over the presidency on January 20, and the Senate does not intend to convene again until the 19th, an indictment will likely take place during the important early days of his presidency.
Biden spoke to House President Nancy Pelosi late last week, saying he would ‘focus on doing his job and leaving it to her to deal with accusations’, said a senior adviser to Biden, who spoke on condition of anonymity. told The Washington Post.
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Immediately after the siege of the Capitol, Biden denounced the attackers as ‘rioters, insurgents and domestic terrorists’, but did not want to say in public whether he supported another accusation.
Biden asked Senators on Monday if they could “double” their time between the Senate hearing and other matters.
“Can we take half a day off with the accusation and half a day to nominate and confirm my people in the Senate?” he told reporters he was asking lawmakers about concerns about his nominees in the cabinet, reports the Post.
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Sen. Chuck Schumer, who will soon be a majority leader in the Senate, is also investigating ways to speed up the Senate hearing, which will traditionally take weeks and give little time for other matters, the Post reports.