Pelosi criticized Trump and McConnell over proof the Senate won’t hear.
On the day that she plans to send articles of impeachment to the Senate, Speaker Nancy Pelosi started the morning with a pair of early-morning Twitter posts criticizing President Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican chief, for conserving witnesses and paperwork from Congress.
“There might be no full & honest trial within the Senate if Chief McConnell blocks the Senate from listening to witnesses and acquiring paperwork President Trump is overlaying up,” Ms. Pelosi wrote, including: #DefendOurDemocracy.
The speaker’s tweets come simply hours after the Home released additional evidence from an affiliate to Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s private lawyer, of Mr. Trump’s involvement in pressuring Ukraine for investigations of his political rivals.
Dozens of pages of textual content messages, notes and different paperwork from Lev Parnas, Mr. Giuliani’s affiliate, provides extra particulars to again up the Home allegations that Mr. Trump and his aides orchestrated a blatant effort to solicit overseas assist in the 2020 election.
Democrats stated the brand new info places further strain on Mr. McConnell and the president’s Republican allies for the Senate to subpoena further witnesses and paperwork earlier than making a choice in regards to the president’s guilt.
“The President has fought tooth-and-nail to maintain 1000’s of paperwork away from the general public,” Ms. Pelosi said in one of her tweets. “And no surprise — every time new items come out, they present President Trump proper on the middle of the trouble to strain Ukraine to research his political rivals.”