Romney said on the Senate floor that Trump was"guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust" when he pressured Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden while withholding US security aid.
But Romney's vote is a significant jolt to the President's dismissal of the impeachment trial as a hoax. Trump and his allies have seized on the fact that no Republicans voted for impeachment in the House, but with Romney's vote, that will not be the case in the Senate trial. "After many sleepless nights, I have reluctantly concluded that the evidence is sufficient to convict the President for both abuse of power and obstruction of Congress," Jones said.
But Senate Republicans rejected the need for witnesses, defeating a motion to call witnesses 49-51. They argued that the House should have called the witnesses it wanted before impeaching the President and that voting for witnesses could have sparked executive privilege concerns that extended the trial indefinitely. Many Republicans, including Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, a key swing vote, said the House had proved its case that the President had tied the US aid to investigations.
"If you find that the House has proved its case and still vote to acquit, your name will be tied to his with a cord of steel and for all of history," Schiff said."But if you find the courage to stand up to him, to speak the awful truth to his rank falsehood, your place will be among the Davids who took on Goliath. If only you will say enough."
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