Mitch McConnell: Everything I do during this, I’m coordinating with White House Counsel. There will be no difference between the President’s position and our position as to how to handle this pic.twitter.com/baFaTKWvUl
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) December 13, 2019
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is pledging that he’ll be in “total coordination” with the White House as he plots the GOP strategy for an impeachment trial.
McConnell, during an interview with Fox News, repeatedly pledged that he will be in sync with White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, with whom he met privately on Thursday.
“Everything I do during this I’m coordinating with the White House counsel. There will be no difference between the president’s position and our position as to how to handle this,” McConnell told Fox News on Thursday night.
McConnell added that he’ll be in “total coordination with the White House counsel’s office and the people who are representing the president in the well of the Senate.”
Pressed about the potential for witnesses during a Senate, McConnell demurred saying he would coordinate with Trump’s lawyers.
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“I’m going to take my cues from the president’s lawyers. But yes, if you know you have the votes, you’ve listened to the arguments on both sides and believe the case is so slim, so weak that you have the votes to end it, that might be what the president’s lawyers would prefer,” McConnell added during the interview with Sean Hannity.
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WATCH: McConnell says he'll be in "total coordination" with White House on impeachment trial strategy https://t.co/Vw3YsEskSw pic.twitter.com/tBhkj6FK6D
— The Hill (@thehill) December 13, 2019
It’s very hard to reconcile this statement by McConnell with the special oath senators are required to take in impeachment trials under the rules. https://t.co/3naNGsAovn
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) December 13, 2019
"What Senate? There is no Senate. There is only the erosion of constitutional powers that I have happily overseen because now my corruption can be out in the open. Come visit me in Kentucky's new Russian aluminum mill!" https://t.co/1rtzYnHn4j
— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) December 13, 2019
He’s not just a juror, he’s also another one of the presidents free lawyers. https://t.co/eWl7KuqZF1
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) December 13, 2019
Democrats have been handed a tremendous opening here. They need to seize this moment right now. https://t.co/IfOJrkkX3t
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) December 13, 2019
If/when the Senate votes against removing the President, everyone must understand that when you fix a jury & it votes for you, you haven't been exonerated. https://t.co/mmQHmPtnkw
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) December 13, 2019
People ask me when I think protest is appropriate and matters, since I'm usually not a fan.
This, right here, should bring people into the streets of every state with a Republican senator. This is a direct attack on the Constitution, not by Trump, but by an entire party. https://t.co/1BtyKd4w4d— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 13, 2019
Mitch McConnell's stunning and outrageous admission that he is in the tank already for Trump on the trial rules, is a flat violation of the oath he will take as a juror. If a jury foreman in a murder trial was found to have worked closely with the defense he would be prosecuted.
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) December 13, 2019
"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. … Power is not a means, it is an end. … The object of power is power. … There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party."
— 1984 https://t.co/Zc8AjFYtMY
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) December 13, 2019
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