Senate Republicans said lead impeachment prosecutor Adam Schiff insulted them during the trial by repeating an anonymously sourced report that the White House had threatened to punish Republicans who voted against President Donald Trump. Schiff, who delivered closing arguments for the prosecution, was
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans said lead impeachment prosecutor Adam Schiff insulted them during the trial by repeating an anonymously sourced report that the White House had threatened to punish Republicans who voted against President Donald Trump.
“CBS News reported last night that a Trump confidant said that key senators were warned, 'Vote against the president and your head will be on a pike.' I don't know if that's true,” Schiff said. “Not only have I never heard the ‘head on the pike’ line," Collins said in a statement,"but also I know of no Republican senator who has been threatened in any way by anyone in the administration.”
Hearing the Republican protests, and with an eye toward Collins, Schiff paused and said: “I hope it's not true. I hope it's not true.”“That’s when he lost me,” Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican moderate, said about Schiff's remark, according to her spokeswoman. She denied having been told what the network reported about the White House. Schiff's invocation of it, she added, ”was unnecessary.
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