Witnesses in Senate Impeachment Trial Might Not Help Democrats: Schumer

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks to reporters after a policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 7, 2020. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

The witnesses that Senate Democrats want to testify in the Senate impeachment trial against President Donald Trump might not bolster their case against Trump, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) admitted on Tuesday.

Schumer criticized Republicans for wanting to start the trial without voting on witnesses, a precedent they’ve said was established during the trial against President Bill Clinton in 1999.