After excluding House Republicans from his defense team, Trump announced Monday night that eight of them would serve as partisan warriors
After excluding House Republicans from his defense team, President Donald Trump announced Monday night that eight of them would serve as his personal warriors.
Republican Reps. Doug Collins , Mike Johnson , Jim Jordan , Debbie Lesko , Mark Meadows , John Ratcliffe , Elise Stefanik and Lee Zeldin will "serve as part of his team working to combat this hyper-partisan and baseless impeachment," according to a White House news release Monday.
During the trial, only Trump’s defense team and the House Democrats’ impeachment managers will be allowed to substantively debate on the floor. Senators will be limited in what they can say during the proceedings. But the House Republicans can now aggressively defend Trump on television, leaving Senate Republicans to stick to trial business as impartial jurors and avoid criticism for going on air.
Trump had been fuming both privately and publicly for weeks before the House’s public impeachment hearings began that Republicans weren’t doing enough to defend him. But that changed after the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees hearings got underway, according to several people familiar with the situation.
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