Several Democratic lawmakers have defended the decision not to call witnesses in former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, saying it wouldn’t have made any difference to the outcome.
Trump was acquitted on Feb. 13 in a 57–43 vote, with seven Republicans joining all Democrats in voting to convict the former president on the sole charge of “incitement of insurrection,” which Trump’s defense lawyers denounced as a “monstrous lie.” The vote fell short of the two-thirds, or 67 votes, needed to convict him.
