Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell urged fellow senators to acquit President Trump in his impeachment trial, warning that the fate of the republic depended on it
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate’s top Republican exhorted fellow senators on Tuesday to acquit President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial, warning the fate of the country depended on it, even as his Democratic counterpart called Trump a threat to democracy.
Others in the Republican-controlled chamber said voters would have a chance to render a verdict on Trump in the November presidential election. The Democratic-led House of Representatives impeached Trump on Dec. 18 on charges of abuse of power for asking Ukraine to investigate political rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter and obstruction of Congress for blocking testimony and documents sought in the investigation.
Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, said it “is the beginning of the end of democracy” if Americans believe their elections are being manipulated through foreign interference, such as that solicited by Trump. “It was wrong for him to ask a foreign country to investigate a political rival,” said Collins, who faces re-election this year in Maine.Republican Senator Rand Paul stated the purported name of the anonymous whistleblower from the U.S. intelligence community whose complaint about Trump’s request to Ukraine triggered the House impeachment inquiry.
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley told reporters that Trump would not accept censure - a congressional rebuke short of removal floated by moderate Democratic Senator Joe Manchin. Gidley said Trump had done nothing wrong.
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