Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)’s demands for a lengthy impeachment trial in the Senate featuring at least four new witnesses would set a “nightmarish precedent.”
“The Senate is meant to act as judge and jury, to hear a trial, not to re-run the entire fact-finding investigation because angry partisans rushed sloppily through it,” McConnell said on the Senate floor on Dec. 17, criticizing Schumer for not speaking to him in person and instead writing him a letter and holding a press conference.
