Third impeachment trial in US history begins ! www.swordpress.us

The third impeachment trial in history formally opened moments ago. There is a brief break before key procedures in the trial continue. Here’s where we’re at now:

• California representative Adam Schiff, the lead impeachment manager, entered the Senate and read impeachment resolution 755: Impeaching Donald John Trump, president of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
• Independent government investigators said Donald Trump’s direction to suspend Ukraine aid violated the law. Republicans struggled to respond to the findings.
• A key figure in the impeachment inquiry, businessman Lev Parnas, provided fresh evidence in interviews with US media outlets where he claimed Donald Trump and his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, were aware of efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, Trump’s political rival.
• The White House press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, said the Trump administration was “not too concerned” about Parnas’s allegations and questioned his motives.