Former US President Donald Trump could be acquitted as early as today after the congressional process in which he is being tried because his supporters stormed Capitol Hill on January 6.
Senators, in the role of witness, judge and jury, will continue the trial of the former president on Saturday at 10 a.m. local time, a month after he was accused of "inciting rebellion".
Donald Trump, the only American president who has been impeached twice, has a good chance of being acquitted, as he was during the first "impeachment" a year ago, writes Hina.
Given his huge popularity on the right, it is hard to believe that 17 Republican senators will side with fifty Democrats and create the qualified majority needed to convict Trump.
Two-thirds of senators need to vote for Trump's conviction, and such a decision would make it impossible for him to be re-elected in the future.
Trump is on trial in the US Senate over his inflammatory speech in which he urged supporters to "fight like hell" before they stormed Congress on January 6 and threatened lawmakers.
Five people were killed in the clash, including a policeman.
Two months after the November 3 election, Trump repeated unsubstantiated claims that his election victory was stolen.
On Friday, his Democratic successor, Joseph Biden, who spent more than 35 years on the Senate bench, said he was eager to see what his Republican "friends" would do, expressing hope that they would "take responsibility."
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