On Friday, failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made the unfortunate admission for Democrats when she announced that the only way to “remove” President Trump from office was to vote him out in 2020. This is the same argument that Republicans have made for over a year now while Democrats have tried removing him by impeachment.
On Friday, failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made the unfortunate admission for Democrats when she announced that the only way to “remove” President Trump from office was to vote him out in 2020.
This is the same argument that Republicans have made for over a year now while Democrats have tried removing him by impeachment.
On Friday, the Republican controlled Senate voted against calling on more witnesses for the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump.
The vote was a close one: 51 to 49.
NBC News reports:
The Senate voted not to call witnesses in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial Friday afternoon, ushering in the final phase of the proceedings, with a vote to acquit or convict Trump possibly coming as late as Wednesday.
The vote was 49 to 51.
Democrats sought testimony from ex-national security adviser John Bolton on Trump’s alleged conditioning of Ukraine aid on investigations into Democrats, including former Vice President Joe Biden. But they failed to get a majority to back their efforts after Sens. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, two key Republican swing votes, announced that they would not back the move.
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