Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told his GOP caucus on Tuesday that he doesn’t have the votes needed to block witnesses from the impeachment trial at the moment, according to multiple reports.
Fox News, the Washington Post, CNN, and the Wall Street Journal reported that McConnell broke the news to his fellow Republican senators during a private meeting.
However, several senators reportedly haven’t made up their minds yet, still leaving open the possibility of McConnell quashing Democrats’ efforts to have key witnesses, such as former National Security Adviser John Bolton, testify.
An unnamed Trump administration official told the Wall Street Journal that the White House is “still in the game” and hasn’t given up on the fight against witnesses.
After the New York Times reported on several of Bolton’s damning accounts in his unpublished manuscript, including one in which President Donald Trump explicitly tied Ukraine military aid to assistance with an investigation into Joe Biden, Sens. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) expressed support for allowing Bolton to testify.
Bill Barr will have to make a few calls concerning various Senator’s taxes, maids, overseas investments, campaign committee finance audit results, etc. I’m sure this can all be explained in short order. Or else.
Everyone just accepts that of course the Senate Majority Leader is endeavoring to prevent the complete truth about the President’s conduct from being known to the public. It’s not odd at all. On what planet would it be done any differently?
News like this does give me a little bit of hope. Not much hope, but a little nonetheless.
…Yet…
This is just delicious .
Moscow Mitch you disgusting piece of shit.
The chickens have come home to roost
You thought you could bamboozle your way to a quick acquittal, and now Oh My! Yer Fucked
No witnesses: Popular sentiment against you Lose the Election
Witnesses: Popular sentiment against Trump , Guilty You Lose the Election
Such are deals with the Devil
vote on witnesses is Friday… a lot can happen twixt now and then.