US Democrats yesterday pressed the Republican-controlled Senate to call Donald Trump's top lieutenants to testify in its trial of the impeached president, as they sought to focus attention on the trial ahead of the 2020 presidential election., Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would not formally hand off impeachment to the Senate until she got a sense of how Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell would manage the trial.
"Is the president's case so weak that none of the president's men can defend him under oath?" asked Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, who later urged McConnell in a meeting to use the two-week recess to consider allowing witnesses., Schumer said he doubted McConnell would agree to allow witness testimony.
McConnell and Schumer met yesterday afternoon. Asked how he felt about Pelosi potentially withholding the articles of impeachment, the Republican said:"If the speaker wants to hold on to them, it’s fine with us." , a former US vice-president, as well as a discredited theory that Democrats conspired with Ukraine to meddle in the 2016 election.
A Senate trial would kick off a politically-charged year heading into the presidential election, which will pit Trump against one of a field of Democratic contenders, including Biden, who has repeatedly criticised the president's conduct in office.released yesterday.
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