Democrats are really eager to get former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial started.
A little slip of the tongue punctuated Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s announcement Friday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will send the article of impeachment to the Senate on Monday.
“The Senate will conduct a trial of the impeachment of Donald Trump,” Schumer, a New York Democrat, said on the Senate floor, in his third day as majority leader.
“It will be a full trial. It will be a fair trial. But make no mistake: There will be a trial, and when that trial ends, senators will have to decide if they believe Donald Trump incited the erection — insurrection against the United States,” he added, quickly correcting himself.
SCHUMER: “Senators will have to decide if they believe Donald Trump incited the ERECTION against the United States.” pic.twitter.com/GllUiqAEUy
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 22, 2021
Trump was impeached a second time by the House last week on a charge of incitement of insurrection after he encouraged his supporters at a “Stop the Steal” rally to march on the Capitol before rioters broke into the building.
Trump has called his second impeachment a “hoax,” and his allies expect claims of voter fraud will be raised once again.
Schumer isn’t the only public figure to make a verbal mistake on the topic. Chris Krebs, who was director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency for two years, until Trump fired him for rebutting claims of election fraud, on Jan. 10, highlighted his mistake in a tweet about a recent television appearance.
“So that was awesome. On Face the Nation I just said erection instead of election. I am so bad at this,” Krebs wrote.
