Two swing-vote Republican senators declined to say whether they believe the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, a top 2020 Democratic candidate, should testify in the coming impeachment trial in the Senate.
Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) told reporters that the fight over witnesses should wait until after the opening arguments and added that it’s too soon to make a decision on calling up Hunter Biden, the vice president’s son, who has been pulled back into the spotlight after House Republicans and President Donald Trump argued that he should be called as a witness. The younger Biden sat on the board of a Ukrainian gas firm, Burisma Holdings, which had been investigated for corruption, and Trump asked Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky in a July 25 phone call if he could “look into” Joe Biden’s apparent connection to the investigation being halted.
