What was the Republican excuse for not calling witnesses in Trump's impeachment "trial"?
As I recall, they blamed the House for not allowing Bolton and others to testify, so they had no obligation to do the job the House should have done?
However, as I recall, Bolton refused to testify before the House but had publicly stated that he would testify before the Senate if subpoenaed?
Still, the Senate refused. They did not believe it was their job to accumulate evidence beyond what the House had already gathered, which was abundant and over-whelming.
On the face of it, the Senate neglected to do their duty. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that their job is to defend the President of the United States. Their responsibility was to look at the evidence, all the evidence, and deliver "impartial justice".
It was a whitewash of the first degree.
Democrats should not let the people forget this. In no way, in no spin machine, was Donald Trump cleared of the charges against him.
Several Republicans did not question the charges against Trump. They believed he tried to get a foreign leader to help him tear down his possible opponent, Joe Biden, in the next election. However, they did not think it was impeachable - they thought it was "inappropriate".
They did not want to hear any more evidence. They did not want to hear from any other witnesses. So they got out their brushes and covered it all up.
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