‘Leader McConnell is plotting the most rushed, least thorough and most unfair impeachment trial in modern history,’ said Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer
Dismissing the impeachment vote as “slapdash,” McConnell made it clear that he did not think the Senate should find Trump guilty.
McConnell has already said he is working in tandem with the White House on trial preparations, drawing accusations from Democrats that he is ignoring his duty to consider the evidence in an impartial manner. Trump, 73, is accused of abusing his power by pressuring Ukraine to investigate Biden, a former U.S. vice president, as well as a discredited theory that Democrats conspired with Ukraine to meddle in the 2016 election.
It was unclear on Thursday how or when a trial in the Senate would play out after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she might delay sending over the articles of impeachment to the Senate in order to pressure that chamber to conduct what she viewed as a fair trial.“What Mitch McConnell said today, it ... reminded me. Our founders suspected we could have a rogue president. I don’t think they suspected we could have a rogue Senate and president at the same time.
Trump has denied wrongdoing and called the impeachment inquiry launched by Pelosi in September a “witch hunt.”“Now the Do Nothing Party want to Do Nothing with the Articles & not deliver them to the Senate, but it’s Senate’s call!” Trump wrote on Twitter. “If the Do Nothing Democrats decide, in their great wisdom, not to show up, they would lose by Default!”
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