Vol. 36, No. 04
February 17, 2020
The GOP Should Welcome More Impeachment Witnesses
The GOP Should Welcome More Impeachment Witnesses
As this is being written, the question of whether the Senate will call in more witnesses to build on the testimonies given during the House’s impeachment inquiry is center stage.
Democrats have been insistent that they want to bring in administration officials they were unable to hear from in the House, most prominently former National Security Adviser John Bolton and acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) cited new witness testimonies in the Senate trial as one of the chief motives behind her decision to hold the articles of impeachment from proceeding to the upper chamber for nearly a month. “We wanted the public to see the need for witnesses, witnesses with firsthand knowledge of what happened,” Pelosi told This Week.
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