Trump is set to face trial in January. Majority leader Mitch McConnell has said the president will not be convicted and added that he is co-ordinating closely with the White House on strategy.
Democrats have protested but on Saturday the South Carolina Republican senator and Trump ally Lindsey Graham stoked their wrath further, telling a CNN interviewer in Doha he was “not trying to be a fair juror here” and that
“this thing will come to the Senate and it will die quickly, and I will do everything I can to make it die quickly.”
On Sunday the Kentucky Republican senator Rand Paul predicted on CNN’s State of the Union his party would vote as a block in the Senate to acquit Trump, without
On Sunday the Kentucky Republican senator Rand Paul predicted on CNN’s State of the Union his party would vote as a block in the Senate to acquit Trump, without
even defections from critics of the president, such as Mitt Romney of Utah, or electorally vulnerable moderates such as Susan Collins of Maine.Asked how he could
square his predetermination of the outcome of the trial with his role as an impartial juror as laid out in the US constitution, Paul said: “This is a very partisan thing. This is a disagreement, people on the Democratic side don’t like 🍊 so they decided to criminalise politics.”
Paul claimed making up his mind before the trial was consistent with his constitutional duties. Other Republican senators have gone further in expressing their disdain for the impeachment process.
