Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is dismissing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s threat to sit on two articles of impeachment against President Trump, making clear the move would not pressure him to acquiesce to Democratic demands for how the Senate trial should be conducted.
On Wednesday evening, as the House was in the middle of impeaching Trump, McConnell told a small group of reporters that he was “in no hurry” to hold a Senate trial, undercutting Pelosi’s strategy of withholding the articles of impeachment as a means to pressure the Senate majority leader to conduct a trial on terms more favorable to congressional Democrats.
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