It appears that the key vote on witnesses will likely happen on Friday, after two days devoted to written questioning of the two sides by senators
Bolton’s knowledge of Trump’s conduct is looming over the impeachment trial. Photo: The Washington Post/The Washington Post via Getty Images Throughout the impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump, there has been a contrast between the formal arguments of the two parties and the underlying issue of whether additional evidence blocked by the White House during the House proceedings would be admitted by the Senate.
Within just 24 hours, White House officials went from feeling self-assured about the speediness of the Senate impeachment trial to scrambling to squash John Bolton’s bombshell allegation.Now, White House officials and Trump lawyers are preparing for the possibility that the Senate impeachment trial will summon witnesses — dragging out the trial for days or weeks, cutting into plans for the State of the Union address and delaying Trump’s pivot to his reelection campaign….
Presumably McConnell and company worked hard today to put the genie back into the bottle — perhaps fighting a two-front war against Trump partisans who relished the idea of publicly dragging a Biden or two through the mud. In the meantime, a sizable number of Trump attorneys made arguments that suggested there is no factual situation that would save the impeachment-and-removal effort from its terrifying character as a partisan coup.
Between these two efforts to wave off the need for additional evidence, Team Trump went after Joe and Hunter Biden and their alleged corruption. Ostensibly the idea was to show how justified Trump was in pressuring Ukraine to clean up its act. More subtly it was a warning to Senate Democrats that if they persist in promoting a long trial with witnesses, there will be collateral damage.
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