'Their Turn Is Over. They’ve Done Enough Damage': Mitch McConnell Swipes Dems Over Impeachment

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David Rufful
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has a very clear and concise message for Democrats: Their time in the spotlight is up.
Democrats may have voted to impeach President Trump, but that “fantasy” is over once the Republican-majority in the Senate gets a hold of the impeachment process.
“Their turn is over. They’ve done enough damage. It’s the Senate’s turn now to render sober judgment,” McConnell said on the Senate floor on Friday, as Fox News reports.
This, of course, cannot happen until House Speaker Nancy Pelosi officially hands over the impeachment articles to McConnell—legally impeaching President Trump and giving Republicans full control of the remainder of the process.
Pelosi is not ready to do that yet though as she claims Republicans will give Trump an unfair trial (something she and her Democratic counterparts could very well be accused of doing themselves). She, instead, said she will hand over the articles of impeachment once she believes the Senate will be impartial and fair.
McConnell called Pelosi’s attempt to “hand-design” the Senate proceedings a “non-starter” and a “fantasy.”


Fox News reports shortly after McConnell’s comments, his Democratic counterpart backed Pelosi’s decision to withhold the articles:

Moments later, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., defended his party’s efforts to seek certain high-level witnesses and documents, noting how recently published emails have started to fill out the details of the administration’s decision to freeze aid to Ukraine while the president sought politically advantageous investigations from Kiev. Schumer said it is imperative to learn the “whole truth,” while voicing concern McConnell could end up holding a “mock trial.”
“Will we fulfill our duty to conduct a fair impeachment trial of the president of the United States or will we not? That is most pressing question facing this Senate,” Schumer said. “The country just saw McConnell’s answer to that question. The answer is no.”
Schumer argued that McConnell is ignoring “the only one precedent that matters here.”
“Never, never in the history of our country has there been an impeachment trial in which the Senate was denied the ability to hear from witnesses, yet the Republican leader seems intent on violating that precedent and denying critical evidence to this body and to the American people,” Schumer said, adding that McConnell has “no intention to be impartial.”