U.S. Senate Republicans Will Not Call The Witnesses That The Trump Administration Wants In An Impeachment Trial

U.S. President Donald Trump sits for an exclusive interview with Reuters journalists in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S. December 11, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

PoliticusUSA: Republicans Lack The Votes To Call Trump Impeachment Trial Witnesses

Senate Republicans don’t have the 51 votes needed to call the Hunter Biden, or anyone associated with Trump’s favorite conspiracies to testify at his impeachment trial.

According to The New York Times:

While Democrats who control the House are focused on a swift impeachment vote by year’s end, the White House is almost entirely consumed by the trial that would follow in the Republican-controlled Senate, where Mr. Trump’s team believes he would have the chance to defend himself and where Democrats would almost certainly fall short of the two-thirds vote they would need to remove him from office.

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WNU Editor: The Democrats will need to peel away three US Senators to make that happen, and it is easy to know who those three US Republican Senators are .... Here are the Senate Republicans who could vote to convict Trump (The Hill).

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