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20, 2019.Alex Wong/Getty The New York Times reported Friday that former national security adviser John Bolton in an unpublished book manuscript says President Donald Trump personally asked him to help pressure Ukraine to launch investigations that would help Trump politically.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…
Jay Sekulow’s Radio Show Is Covering Jay Sekulow’s Impeachment Lawyering
Mother Jones illustration; Getty, Mark Wilson/Getty President Donald Trump prefers to get his legal representation from TV lawyers. All of his personal attorneys—Rudy Giuliani, Alan Dershowitz, Joseph diGenova and his wife Victoria Toensing—have been regular talking heads on Fox News and in conservative media. But none of them can compete with what attorney Jay Sekulow…
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…
Lamar Alexander, Who Had Suggested He Might Vote for Witnesses, Just Caved to Trump
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Zuma After two days of questions concluded in the Senate impeachment trial late Thursday night, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) announced that he would vote against having witnesses appear before the Senate in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. In the lead-up to Friday’s pivotal vote, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has urged…