The Senate Will Not Have Witnesses for Impeachment
That makes it official. The Senate voted this afternoon, 51 to 49, to move ahead with the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump without further witnesses or documents. This is after the Friday’s news that John Bolton’s forthcoming book says Trump asked Bolton to help with the Ukraine pressure campaign at the heart of impeachment…
Senate Republicans Are Betting That Voters’ Anger Will Fade by November
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell arrives at the Capitol on January 31, 2020.Mario Tama/Getty Images Republicans were always going to acquit President Donald Trump in his Senate impeachment trial, no matter of how much damning information they received. So why consider new evidence that would only confirm his guilt? That is the logic of Sen.…
“The Facts Will Come Out”: Schiff Reacts to Latest Bolton Bombshell
Stefani Reynolds/CNP/Zuma On Friday afternoon, with the motion to hear from witnesses in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial almost certain to fail, lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff read aloud from a breaking New York Times article implicating the president’s own defense counsel in Trump’s scheme to “extract damaging information on Democrats from Ukrainian…
Trump Says John Bolton Is Lying. Put Them Both on the Stand.
Donald Trump and John Bolton on August 20, 2019.Alex Wong/Getty The New York Times reported Friday that former national security adviser John Bolton in an unpublished book manuscript says President Donald Trump personally asked him to help pressure Ukraine to launch investigations that would help Trump politically. According to the paper, Bolton wrote that Trump…
In Fundraising Emails, McConnell Pledges to Stop the “Impeachment Circus”
Senate Television/AP As the impeachment trial of Donald Trump has progressed, Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has wasted no time trying to cash in on it. The Kentucky senator, who is up for reelection this year in the Trump-friendly state, blasted out two fundraising emails this week, asking supporter for help in “standing up to the…
John Bolton Just Announced His Support of the Witnesses Who Testified in House Impeachment Hearings
Ron Sachs/CNP/Zuma While the Senate was winding up the question and answer phase of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, and the night before the Senate vote on whether to allow witnesses, former national security adviser John Bolton announced his support for the witnesses who already testified before the House. “All of them acted in the…