Why Trump’s Senate impeachment creates a headache for everyone

Things are about to get nasty again, writes Andrew Buncombe, as Joe Biden talks about peace and unity

The only person likely to benefit from the process is Trump himself (Getty Images)

Ron Klain was wearing a face covering, but you could tell he was not really smiling. Yes, he told the CNN anchor. He did believe it was possible for Congress to work together in a bipartisan fashion to produce a major Covid-relief package, while also overseeing the impeachment trial of Donald Trump in the Senate.

A week earlier, Joe Biden’s chief of staff said the same thing in an interview with the Washington Post. “I think they are going to have to work on both simultaneously,” he said.

“Obviously a committee will work on the proposal that [Biden] put forward, and this can obviously go on while the impeachment trial is taking place. And hopefully the [impeachment] trial will not be a lengthy trial.”