Senate Minority Leader Schumer: 'Republican senators who decide to go against the will of the people will have to reckon with it.'
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other top Democrats on Friday slammed an upcoming vote that looks set to result in a quick end to President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.
“It’s clear where the American people stand on the issue. Republican senators who decide to go against the will of the people will have to reckon with it.” In announcing his decision late Thursday, Alexander said: “There is no need for more evidence to prove something that has already been proven and that does not meet the United States Constitution’s high bar for an impeachable offense.”
On Friday, Schumer aimed to portray the trial as bogus unless it involves witnesses such as John Bolton, the former national security adviser.“If my Republican colleagues refuse to consider witnesses and documents in this trial, the president’s acquittal will be meaningless, because it will be the result of a sham trial,” the New York Democrat said.
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