meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Byron York Show

Can Trump Be Tried?

The Byron York Show

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

House Democrats will deliver to the Senate a single, hastily-passed article of impeachment against former President Trump. A trial is set to begin two weeks later, on February 9. It will be an event without precedent — the first time in U.S. history that a former president will be tried in a court of impeachment. […]

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Byron York show The No Chit-Chit-Chat

0:11.1

podcast brought to you today by Express VPN. No Chit Chat Podcast. Baudhast. B. We'll talk about that in a few minutes.

0:16.0

But right now we want to get right into it.

0:18.0

And what we're going to get into is a topic that I confess I'm getting a little bit obsessed with. It's this question of whether

0:27.6

you can impeach and try a former president, whether that's constitutional.

0:34.8

Also, whether it's a good idea, but whether it's constitutional.

0:37.8

And pretty obvious why I'm getting interested in that.

0:43.0

Monday is the day that the House managers deliver the single

0:49.0

article of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate.

0:52.0

There'll be a two-week delay. impeachment against President Trump to the Senate.

0:52.9

There will be a two-week delay,

0:55.4

and then a trial is scheduled to begin

0:58.3

for ex-President Trump on January,

1:01.7

excuse me, February the 9th.

1:04.0

Okay, so let's get into this.

1:07.0

This is a single, hastily passed article of impeachment.

1:12.0

I mean, remember, the house passed this article of impeachment without hearings,

1:17.0

without an inquiry, without an authorization,

1:23.0

all of the stuff that goes with due process and the impeachment procedure,

1:29.0

but they just did it.

1:31.0

They did it in about a minute and a half, and then now they're going to have a trial.

1:34.5

So this is absolutely unprecedented. It is an event without precedent. It is the first time in U history that a former president will be tried in a court of impeachment.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Radio America, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Radio America and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.