Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) doubled down Tuesday on comments he made last week indicating he was heading into a Senate impeachment trial as a defender of President Trump.
“I am not an impartial juror. This is a political process, there’s not anything judicial about it. Impeachment is a political decision,” McConnell told reporters on Capitol Hill.
He had been asked about comments he made Friday on Fox News where he said would be working in close coordination with the White House when it came to handling the impeachment trial.
“I’m not impartial about this at all,” McConnell said Tuesday.
The House is expected to adopt impeachment articles against Trump on Wednesday, alleging that he abused his power in a pressure campaign to force Ukraine to open investigations into the President’s domestic political rivals.
On Tuesday, McConnell was asked whether he thought Trump behaved entirely appropriately when asking Ukraine’s president to open the investigations.
As he’s done before, McConnell dodged the question.
“All of those issues will be argued here in the Senate in the coming days, and my assumption still is that we’ll turn to this after the first of the year,” McConnell said.
Look at the expression on Trump’s orange face. I think either the drugs just kicked in or his constipation worries are behind him.
Are you trying to shock us Uncle Moscow?
And why does tRUMP look like his backed up flatulence is finally released?
damn…beat me to it!
Aha! We have finally found the “Kangaroo Court,” and it is McConnell, and Graham, and, and, and . . . all of the Rethuglicans in the US Senate.
The more obvious the crime, the more frivolous Republicans become, as a gambit to fool people into thinking something serious isn’t.
McConnell is weak on defense against Russia.
“I am not an impartial juror. This is a political process, there’s not anything judicial about it. Impeachment is a political decision,” McConnell told reporters on Capitol Hill.
Funny, I thought impeachment was a Constitutional process, and that the decision was to be based on the Congressional oath of office and the oath taken by members of the Senate in cases of impeachment:
Form of oath to be administered to the members of the Senate sitting in the trial of impeachments:
“I solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be,) that in all things appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of ___, now pending, I will do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws: so help me God.”