.MaddowBlog: White House appears to abandon calls for a full impeachment trial.
The week before Thanksgiving, Senate Republicans huddled with a group of leading White House officials – a contingent that included acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner – to discuss impeachment strategy. There was no real ambiguity about what Team Trump wanted.
And at a certain level, that position made sense. In a Republican-led Senate, it stood to reason that Donald Trump had no reason to fear a conviction that would bring his presidency to a premature end. A full trial would offer an opportunity for Trump’s allies to present their side of the story on the Ukraine scandal, and make the case for his innocence.
That unexpected statement, arriving amid a flurry of tweets, not only appeared to put the president at odds with Republican Senate leaders moving toward a full trial but also contradicted Mr. Trump’s own words from just hours earlier, when he argued for a trial that would include as witnesses Democratic House leaders who are prosecuting him.
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