Washington Post (January 31)
“As President Trump’s impeachment trial speeds to a close, perhaps as soon as Friday, likely without any witnesses, the result looks to be a worst-case scenario…. When they acquit, senators won’t just excuse Trump’s behavior. They will endorse the belief that a president can do as he pleases — the law be damned.”
Tags: Acquit, Behavior, Belief, Endorse, Impeachment, Senators, Trial, Trump, Witnesses, Worst-case
Chicago Tribune (January 22)
“It seems odd that lawmakers from one political party, sworn to uphold the Constitution and under oath as impartial jurors, would not insist that witnesses to what they claim is perfectly legal presidential behavior step up and testify.”
Tags: Behavior, Constitution, Impartial, Jurors, Lawmakers, Legal, Oath, Party, Testify, Uphold, Witnesses
LA Times (January 14)
“Convicting Trump will take a two-thirds vote of the Senate, which means that even if all Democrats and independents vote to remove the president, he’ll remain in office unless at least 20 Republicans turn against him. Those are long odds, and if McConnell has his way on witnesses, they’ll stay long.”
Tags: Convicting, Democrats, Independents, McConnell, Remove, Republicans, Senate, Trump, Vote, Witnesses
Washington Post (November 20)
“Even Republicans’ preferred witnesses are implicating Trump.” At Tuesday’s hearings by the House Intelligence Committee, “it was striking that the stories” told by the witnesses selected by the President’s party, “simply added to the evidence that President Trump abused his office and twisted long-standing U.S. policy in Ukraine to serve his personal political interests.”
Tags: Abuse, Evidence, Hearings, House Intelligence Committee, Implicating, Republicans, Trump, U.S., Ukraine, Witnesses
Chicago Tribune (June 15)
“Donald Trump should be extremely worried about his presidency.” It’s easy to see why he “is still ruminating about firing Mueller,” the special counsel, even though that “would be politically disastrous, fueling impeachment fever…. His presidency is imperiled so long as Mueller compels witnesses to testify, accumulates written evidence and traces the myriad of ties between the Trump team and Russians.”
Tags: Disastrous, Evidence, Impeachment, Imperiled, Mueller, Russia, Special counsel, Testify, Trump, U.S., Witnesses, Worried
