Alaska Sen. Murkowski ends the suspense by coming out against witness testimony in Trump trial by jonward11
WASHINGTON – Demands by Democrats to call witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump evidently failed Friday when Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said she would oppose the motion.
Removing Trump from office was always a near impossibility, but the prospect of calling witnesses such as John Bolton, the president’s former national security adviser, could have prolonged the trial and resulted in new disclosures that, Republicans feared, might have damaged the president further. Murkowski said it was “clear some of my colleagues intend to further politicize this process and drag the Supreme Court into the fray, while attacking the Chief Justice.”
Democrats have argued that without witnesses the trial will not be fair. But Murkowski seemed to conclude that even with witnesses, the trial would not be fair, leaving open the question of what a fair trial would look like in her opinion.
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