Keep it short: Joe Biden’s message to US Senate for Donald Trump’s impeachment trial

US President Joe Biden has asked the Senate Democratic leaders to keep the impeachment trial of Donald Trump “short” and don’t “let it derail his agenda.” Biden has neither embraced the former US president’s impeachment nor stood in the way of Trump’s trial.

Trump was impeached by the Democrats-dominant House of Representatives for the second time on January 8, charged with ‘incitement of insurrection.’ He was impeached after pro-Trump supporters sieged the US Capitol on January 6, the day Congress was set to certify Biden as the next President.

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The attack on Capitol came after Trump posted a video on his social media handles, asking his supporters to rally to the legislature while falsely that the November 3 election was rigged.

Biden and his team have been cognizant of an early impeachment trial in his term as the US President seek to win a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package deal.

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Meanwhile, it is clear now that Trump’s impeachment trial will not end with his conviction.

Earlier this week, five Republicans vote against tabling a motion in Senate calling the trial unconstitutional, which showed the Senate will not win the two-thirds vote necessary for Trump’s conviction, reports The Hill. 

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The Biden administration and White House allies will be distancing themselves from Trump’s trial, which is due to begin in the second week of February. 

An ally of the President, close to the White House said, “He (Biden) is going to let the Senate do what it needs to do,” quoted The Hill. 

“We always knew this was going to happen. We always knew this would be the position we’re in now with Republicans. And now he’s going to respect the process and let it play out,” the ally said, The Hill quotes. 

Trump’s trial poses some risks to Biden’s plans as some Democrats have warned that it can topple the President’s early agenda.