Political reporters inside the U.S. Senate said Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson was upset with Sen. Mitt Romney Romney for voting for witnesses in the trial.
How the trial got to no on witnesses Updated: February 14
Print article WASHINGTON - The debate among the House impeachment managers raged through the night, as the hours and then minutes ticked down early Saturday before what was widely expected to be the final day of former president Donald Trump’s Senate trial. After weeks of bending to political pressure to ensure a speedy proceeding, some on the House team wanted to make one final, furious push to demand a more intensive investigation - to call witnesses to talk about Trump’s behavior before, during and after the mob attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6.
WASHINGTON: The US Senate voted on Saturday to allow witnesses at the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, a surprise move likely to prolong the proceedings, even as the top Republican senator said he.
Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) told CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday that Democrats “didn’t back down” from calling witnesses during former President Trump's Senate impeachment trial, but instead they "got what [they] wanted' by entering a statement by Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.) into the record. What they're saying: “I think that all Americans, when we rested our case, believed that we had proved our case and the nonsense that the defense put out did not dispute that,” Plaskett, who served as an impeachment manager, said. “As you heard from Mitch McConnell, his closing statement was what we said, he agreed with us.”Stay on top of the latest market trends and economic insights with Axios Markets. Subscribe for free"I know that people are feeling a lot of angst and believe that maybe if we had this, the senators would have done what we wanted. But listen, we didn't need mo
During a press conference on Saturday, Lead Impeachment Manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) stated that "We could have had 5,000 witnesses and Mitch | Clips