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by Countable's Trump Impeachment Coverage | 12.23.19

What’s the story?

\nDemocratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that “explosive” new emails about the president’s interaction with Ukraine reinforce the need for White House witnesses in the upcoming Senate impeachment trial.\n
The New York lawmaker urged President Donald Trump and his GOP allies to submit documents and witnesses so the Senate could hold a \"full, fair and honest\" trial.

\"What is a trial with no witnesses and no documents? It's a sham trial. And that's why [I] feel so strongly that there ought to be witnesses and documents.\"

Emails released over the weekend reveal that a senior White House official contacted the Pentagon about withholding Ukraine's aid about an hour-and-a-half after Trump ended his now-infamous July 25 phone call with Vladomyr Zelensky.
Trump withholding military aid to Ukraine in order to pressure Kiev into investigating his political rivals is a central focus of the impeachment proceedings.\n
\"Until we hear from the witnesses, until we get the documents, the American people will correctly assume that those blocking their testimony were aiding and abetting a cover-up, plain and simple,\" Schumer added.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has repeatedly dismissed efforts to call witnesses.
\"Do you think Chuck Schumer is impartial? Do you think Elizabeth Warren is impartial? Bernie Sanders is impartial? So let's quit the charade. This is a political exercise. ... All I'm asking of Schumer is that we treat Trump the same way we treated [President] Clinton,\" McConnell told “Fox & Friends” on Monday.
\"[House Speaker Nancy Pelosi] apparently believes that she can tell us how to run the trial,\" he added, alluding to the speaker's decision to withhold the two articles of impeachment.

\"Look, we're at an impasse. We can't do anything until the Speaker sends the papers over, so everybody enjoy the holidays.”

What do you think?

Should the Senate call witnesses for the impeachment trial? Or is it all a “charade”? Take action above and tell your reps, then share your thoughts below.

—Josh Herman

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