Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell’s acrimonious relationship could complicate Trump’s Senate trial.
legal team throughout an impeachment trial, accusing him of helping the president skirt accountability. “We ask: Is the president’s case so weak that none of the president’s men can defend him under oath?” Schumer said on the Senate floor, after McConnell dismissed the historic vote toas a “partisan crusade.
In dueling speeches Thursday morning, McConnell and Schumer set up an acrimonious showdown that will set the mood for the president’s Senate trial, upping the partisan ante as the two leaders jockey over its parameters. The antipathy started with Schumer’s letter to McConnell proposing terms for a trail, which McConnell brushed off as a fantasy, and continued Thursday morning as McConnell accused House Democrats of setting a “toxic new precedent that will echo well into the future.
Schumer’s rebuttal was equally firey. “The Republican leader could not rebut the accusations against the president with facts,” Schumer said. “That, in and of itself, is a damning reflection of the state of the president’s defense.” McConnell has morphed the Senate into a “partisan body,” Schumer said, calling on colleagues to put aside politics in favor of a “fair and speedy” hearing and, at one point, daring Trump himself to allow a more substantial trial.
to siphon off moderate Republicans in vulnerable districts who might be more flexible when it comes to procedure. Whether he’ll succeed in bringing any around is another matter entirely.
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