Headline Roundup • February 5th, 2020
Susan Collins Announces She Will Vote To Acquit Trump
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Senator Susan Collins, one of only two Republicans to join Democrats in seeking testimony in the Senate trial of President Donald Trump, said Tuesday she would vote to acquit the president in a final vote on Wednesday.
Collins said key facts in the case were undisputed, including the July 25, 2019, call when Trump urged Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate his political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, which she considered “improper and in very poor judgment.”
“It was wrong for him to ask a foreign government to investigate...
Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins, a key swing vote in President Trump's impeachment trial, announced Tuesday she would vote to acquit on both articles of impeachment -- noting that Democrats' "abuse of power" charge "did not even attempt" to allege that Trump had committed a crime, and instead constituted a "difficult-to-define, non-criminal act."
Even as she criticized Trump's behavior as "flawed," Collins further slammed House Democrats for delaying transmitting the articles of impeachment to the Senate for more than a month, saying the stalling and posturing undercut their arguments that...
New York Times (News)
The Maine senator became the latest Republican to condemn President Trump’s conduct but argue it did not warrant his removal.
She said that Mr. Trump’s call to President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, in which he asked for an investigation of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., was “improper and demonstrated very poor judgment,” but said there had been “conflicting evidence in the record” about Mr. Trump’s motivations.
Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, said on Tuesday that she would vote to acquit President Trump of abuse of power and...
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