After the opening day of the Senate impeachment trial proved so toxic that the chief justice rebuked both sides, the rhetoric cooled Wednesday - except from President Trump.
After a Senate trial opening so contentious after nearly 13 hours that Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. told both sides to cool it, a weary Rep. Adam B. Schiff was perhaps stating the obvious early Wednesday when he admitted, “You’re going to have tempers flare.”
Before flying back to Washington from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump weighed in with caustic comments that made clear he approved of the first day’s friction. He praised White House Counsel Pat Cipollone for his “great emotion” before denouncing Schiff and Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, another House manager, as “major sleazebags.”
At one point Tuesday, Democrats suggested the Senate would be party to a “cover-up” if it refused to subpoena witnesses and documents that the House was unable to obtain during its inquiry. Trump’s personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow, said the president’s refusal to cooperate with the House inquiry was a matter of executive privilege, and that forcing him to reveal information to Congress about his national security decisions would mark “a dangerous moment for America.”
“The only one who should be embarrassed, Mr. Nadler, is you, for the way you’ve addressed this body. This is the United States Senate. You’re not in charge here,” he said. “Nadler is exactly what the White House lawyers were hoping for — someone who caters to the Manhattan chattering class but is politically tone-deaf about the rest of the country,” said one Democratic Senate aide. “Every other manager has been the opposite of that. But Nadler is what Fox News dreams about.”
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