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President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are both looking ahead to the Senate impeachment trial, but there is a growing divide between the two over what that trial should look like, CNN has learned.
In conversations with the White House, the Kentucky Republican has made clear he hopes to end the trial as soon as he can, an effort to both get impeachment off his lap and protect his conference from potentially damaging votes should the process break out into partisan warfare. That will include a continuous whip count until McConnell feels he has the votes to acquit the President and end the show. He has even floated a 10-day minimum during these talks, one person said.
But the show is exactly what Trump wants. He's made clear to advisers privately that rather than end the trial as quickly as possible, he is hoping for a dramatic event, according to two people familiar with his thinking. He wants Hunter Biden, Rep. Adam Schiff and the whistleblower to testify. He wants the witnesses to be live, not clips of taped depositions. And he's hoping to turn it into a spectacle, which he thinks is his best chance to hurt Democrats in the election.
People close to the President say this is because he has been sitting back and watching as current and former aides testified for hours before lawmakers about his behavior that they described as inappropriate, problematic and potentially dangerous.
Infuriated, Trump has been told he will have his day to defend himself soon, one person said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/growing-divide-between-trump-and-mcconnell-over-impeachment-trial/ar-BBY2diO?ocid=msn360
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)RainCaster
(10,926 posts)That sumbitch will be impeached in the house, we know this to be true.
Will the Senate convict? It's very doubtful. But every senator will go on record with their vote, either for or against his guilt. Just like the House vote, this can be weaponized by many DNC campaigns next year.
mopinko
(70,261 posts)he doesnt think. he lashes out like a wounded, infected, desperate, brain damaged animal.
stop saying that.