Schumer also didn’t change his stance when he spoke Friday on the Senate floor after McConnell’s remarks.
“Will we conduct a fair trial that examines all the facts or not? The country just saw Sen. McConnell’s answer to that question. His answer is no,” Schumer said.
“If we don’t get a commitment up front that the House managers will be able to call witnesses as part of their case, the Senate will act as little more than a nationally televised meeting of the mock-trial club,” the New York Democrat added.
Schumer argued that the case for calling witnesses has only gotten stronger since last month, pointing to developments such as a report that a Trump official wrote in an email that the president was giving “clear direction” to hold up aid to Ukraine.
The Democrats’ impeachment push centers on Trump’s pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to announce investigations into Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, as well as into a theory that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
Trump has repeatedly attacked Democratic lawmakers for their efforts to remove him from office, saying in a letter to Pelosi last month that “more due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials.”
Pelosi, meanwhile, said McConnell’s comments on Friday “made clear that he will feebly comply with President Trump’s cover-up of his abuses of power and be an accomplice to that cover-up.”
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