McConnell to vote to acquit Trump Senate votes to call witnesses

The former President Trump‘s impeachment case entered the last day on the 13th, the Senate will vote on whether Trump is guilty, sources revealed on the 13th, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell (Mitch McConnell) will vote to acquit Trump (vote to acquit Trump); at the request of the Democrats, the federal senators also voted on the 13th to The Trump legal team is demanding at least 300 depositions to thoroughly investigate the situation on the day of the congressional event, including the depositions of Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives Nancy Polosi and Vice President He Jinli.

According to the Associated Press, two people familiar with the matter said on the 13th that McConnell had indicated in a letter to Republicans that he would vote to acquit Trump because he believed the Senate had no jurisdiction over the case; McConnell’s attitude may affect the decision of most Republicans, and if the Democrats want to push the impeachment through the Senate, there must be at least 17 Republican senators to support it, and 50 Democrats must not have Anyone running for votes, the difficulty is very high.

The federal Senate originally planned to vote on whether Trump is guilty after the conclusion of the debate in the afternoon of the 13th, leading the House of Representatives impeachment monitor group of Democratic Congressman Raskin (Jamie Raskin) 13 morning shortly after the trial began, asked to call Washington State Congressman Butler (Jaime Herrera Beutler) to testify that Trump had been in Congress before the incident with the House of Representatives Trump had spoken with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) before the congressional event about the election results, and Beutler was the first person to make the conversation public.

Senators ultimately voted 55-45 to call witnesses, meaning the impeachment trial will continue to be extended.

In the face of the Democrats’ request to call witnesses, the Trump legal team is not shy, saying they have prepared a list of depositions involving at least 300 people to thoroughly investigate the details of the Jan. 6 congressional incident, including federal House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Vice President He Jinli (Kamala Harris), Trump defense attorney Michael van der Veen ( Michael van der Veen) said, “I’m not going to take just one deposition, and out of fairness and respect for the process, (you) don’t limit my ability to find the facts.”