Originally published at: GAME OVER? Key Swing Vote Comes Out AGAINST Witnesses, Acquittal Could Come Friday Night | Sean Hannity
A key Republican swing-vote came out against calling new witnesses in the ongoing impeachment trial Thursday night; saying removing President Trump from the White House would “rip the country apart.”
“Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., announced late Thursday night that he would not support additional witnesses in President Trump’s ‘shallow, hurried and wholly partisan’ Senate impeachment trial, seemingly ending Democrats’ hopes of hearing testimony from former national security adviser John Bolton and paving the way for the president’s imminent acquittal as soon as Friday night,” reports Fox News.
“If this shallow, hurried and wholly partisan impeachment were to succeed, it would rip the country apart, pouring gasoline on the fire of cultural divisions that already exist,” Alexander said. “It would create the weapon of perpetual impeachment to be used against future presidents whenever the House of Representatives is of a different political party.”
“The framers believed that there should never, ever be a partisan impeachment. That is why the Constitution requires a 2/3 vote of the Senate for conviction. Yet not one House Republican voted for these articles,” he added.
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