Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who has offered few comments during the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, said the two articles against the president fail to meet the lofty standard laid out by the framers of the Constitution.
Impeachment “cannot rest alone on the exercise of a constitutional power combined with concerns about whether the president’s motivations were public or personal and a disagreement over whether the exercise of the power was in the national interest,” McConnell said on Feb. 4 on the Senate floor, after about two weeks of arguments from both Trump’s legal team and the House impeachment managers.
