Top White House officials and Senate Republicans have reportedly reached an agreement to hold a full trial if the House votes to impeach President Trump.
According to a Politico report Thursday, multiple people familiar with the matter said that White House officials and Republican senators agreed to not dismiss articles of impeachment outright.
White House advisers Jared Kushner and Kellyanne Conway, along with White House legal counsel Pat Cipollone, reportedly met with Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Ron Johnson (R-LA), Mike Lee (R-UT), Ron Johnson (R-WI), and Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Thursday morning to discuss impeachment strategy now that the House impeachment investigation is nearly over.
Despite how some on the right attempted to push Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to ditch the notion of a fair trial earlier this month, two attendees told Politico that the White House wants the Senate to hold a trial and to not cut it short.
One attendee added that the White House and Trump’s GOP allies “want some kind of factual affirmative defense on the merits,” according to Politico.
Earlier Thursday, McConnell said that “we’ll be ready” for an impeachment trial “if it comes over here” after “the action is all over in the House,” according to CNN.
On Monday, McConnell doubled down on his stance that he “can’t imagine a scenario” where the Senate would vote to remove Trump from office.
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several Republican senators met with White House counsel Pat Cipollone, counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner on Thursday morning to discuss impeachment strategy.
Isn’t that jury tampering?
i think it’s clear that Barr will produce false evidence in December that clears Russia and suggests entire Ukraine matter is a plot to discredit president–and sadly, a lot of Americans will buy it. The Senate trial will be a true disinformation campaign. Will Mitt criticize? No. Our democracy honestly feels doomed–becuz once Trump is out of impeachment danger, there will be no remaining check on his and GOP power and they will steal 2020 election with Russian help I fear
Drip!
Drip!
Drip!
Drip!
Drip!
And the Trump cult will applaud. Some people just want the comfort of a strong man telling them what to think.