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| | | The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump will be the first such trial in U.S. history to feature no witness testimony after Senate Republicans voted on Friday against hearing from any of the firsthand witnesses to the president’s conduct.
Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives on Dec. 18 for withholding congressionally approved military aid from Ukraine in order to pressure the country into investigating a domestic political opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, and for refusing to cooperate with the House’s investigation into that action.
Senate Republicans blocked efforts to subpoena new witnesses. The 51-49 vote came despite a report on Jan. 26 that former national security adviser John Bolton would write in a forthcoming book that Trump specifically told him that he withheld military aid from Ukraine in order to obtain an investigation into Biden and his son Hunter. Bolton had said he would appear before the Senate to testify if subpoenaed.
But Senate Republicans had already planned to acquit Trump no matter the evidence before them. They refused to hear testimony from Trump’s closest aides. Before the trial even began, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he would not be an “impartial” juror.
Trump’s impeachment trial is now the only impeachment trial in U.S. history to feature no witnesses. Every previous Senate impeachment trial of a president, federal judge or Cabinet official featured witnesses. |
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| | | | | | | | | Republican senators are providing incredulous explanations of their views on President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign toward Ukraine and what sort of punishment he deserves over it ― if any. |
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| | Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she’ll vote against calling witnesses to speak at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, arguing that it didn’t make sense to continue an already heavily politicized trial. |
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| | The Education Department began termination proceedings in December for an employee who acted as a whistleblower over the department’s treatment of transgender students. |
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