.MaddowBlog: Rejecting witnesses, Sen. Alexander secures an unfortunate legacy.
The number of Senate Republicans who seemed open to including witnesses in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial were quite limited. With so much of the 53-member GOP conference allied with the White House, only a handful of senators were considered open-minded enough to be in the mix.
As Alexander sees it, Trump did what he’s accused of doing. Indeed, while the president continues to describe his antics as “perfect” and “beautiful,” the Tennessee Republican conceded that Trump’s actions were “inappropriate” and that the House impeachment managers successfully proved their case. And his conscience led him to disregard the misdeeds of a president whose guilt he considers obvious. Alexander not only won’t vote to convict Trump and remove him from office, he believes the right course of action is to make this the first impeachment trial in American history in which the Senate doesn’t even hear from witnesses.
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