Witnesses in the trial. 51 of the senate defied the expressed will of 75 of the American People, who have told pollsters they want to hear from witnesses in the senate trial. The 51 senators who voted against witnesses represent 151 million people. The 49 senators who are on the losing side of that vote represent 170 million people. The senators who lost the vote in the senate yesterday represent 19 million more people than the senators who won that vote. In a New York Times editorial entitled a dishonorable senate, the times says the vote also brings the nation face to face with the reality that the senate has become nothing more than an arena for the most base and brutal and stupid power politics. Faced with credible evidence that a president was abusing his powers, it would not muster the institutional selfrespect to even investigate. The senate may acquit mr. Trump, but it will not it cannot exonerate him. Mr. Trump is the most corrupt president in modern times, a reality americans