Senate Republicans are so mad at being called part of Trump’s cover-up, they now have no choice but to cover up for Trump.
But towards the end of those crushing series of votes—against evidence production, witness subpoenas, and anything that resembles the standard definition of a trial—Rep. Jerry Nadler, House manager and chair of the Judiciary Committee, appeared to momentarily lose his cool.
First, it was the executive branch’s turn, with Trump impeachment attorney and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone: “We’ve been respectful of the Senate, we’ve made our arguments to you, and you don’t deserve and we don’t deserve what just happened. Mr. Nadler came up here and made false allegations against our team. He made false allegations against all of you. He accused you of a cover-up.”
Roberts even had an anecdote handy for just such an opportunity to restore honor and dignity to a sham trial to acquit a president who has attempted to use the powers of his office to steal the next election and then attempted to cover that cheating up. “In the 1905 Swain Trial, a Senator objected when one of the managers used the word ‘pettifogging’ and the presiding officer said the word ought not to have been used,” Roberts said.
Nadler’s allegation—that Senators are engaging in a cover-up for Trump—is one Democrats have been pledging to make since shortly before last month’s House impeachment vote, when McConnellhe would “take my cues from the president’s lawyers” and that there would “be no difference between the president’s position and our position as to how to handle this.”
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