Trump Trial Prosecutors Invoke Senate Duty Yet Await Acquittal
- Undecided Democrats could clear Trump with bipartisan vote
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Impeachment prosecutors called on senators to convict Donald Trump, and his defense urged lawmakers to let voters decide his fate, as the trial paused for senators’ speeches ahead of Wednesday’s certain vote to acquit the president.
The seven House managers insisted they had proven their case that Trump abused the powers of his office and obstructed Congress. The lead prosecutor, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, spoke directly to the Republican majority in the chamber as he called on them to hold Trump accountable for making the U.S. “a nation whose elections are open to the highest bidder.”