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An impeachment manager says Republicans privately told her she made a compelling case to convict Trump, but they acquitted him anyway

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The word "Insider".Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.Something is loading.Loading...A House impeachment manager said Republican senators had told her privately that she "made the case" to convict former President Donald Trump, but they still voted to acquit him.Stacey Plaskett, a Democratic delegate from the Virgin Islands, on Monday about interactions she had with unnamed Republican senators during Trump's second impeachment trial last week."I had senators, even after we presented, who stopped me in the hallway — Republicans — who said that we had made the case but yet they were going to vote to acquit the president," Plaskett said.Plaskett said she tried to win these senators over by saying they could vote to acquit Trump but to not disqualify him from holding office — a vote that and would have taken place after a conviction.—Cuomo Prime Time (@CuomoPrimeTime) "The response was, 'Well, I don't think you'll get to 17, so I'll never get to that second disqualification vote, and I don't want to stand out on a limb by myself,'" Plaskett recalled. Democratic senators needed 17 Republicans to vote with them in order to convict Trump.Read more: Plaskett has in recent days also defended her decision during the trial."We had no need to call any witnesses at the end of the trial because, as all Americans believed at that moment, the evidence was overwhelming," Plaskett on Sunday.She also in a separate interview on Sunday: "I know people are feeling a lot of angst and believe that maybe if we had this the senators would have done what we wanted. But listen, we didn't need more witnesses, ."Trump was on Saturday, with 57 votes to convict and 43 votes to acquit. A two-thirds majority vote is required to impeach a president. voted to convict, joining all 50 Democrats.Among the Republicans who voted to convict was of North Carolina, who is retiring after this term. , a confidant of Trump's, said Burr's vote paved the way for Trump's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, to run for his seat.While Plaskett didn't get the outcome she was looking for in Trump's second impeachment trial, she said that it was necessary for the country and that it might stop Trump from running for office."I believe that January 6 was, in effect, a second kind of Civil War, and it was necessary for us to have a reckoning and for those individuals who made war against our democracy would be brought to justice, and that they needed to be held accounted for," Plaskett told Cuomo on Monday."And so that's what I saw as my duty and my service to my country. I believe that we were on the front lines to save our union and our republic," she added."But I do believe, even though we lost that case, that we have shown who Donald Trump is. We've shown the enemy that was among us, that was attempting to lead us, that was using us for his own greed and power, and that he will not have the same power that he had, should he ever attempt to run again."NewsletterStart your mornings with 10 Things in Politics You Need to Know Today. Sign up here.Something is loading.Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.

The word "Insider".Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.Something is loading.Loading...A House impeachment manager said Republican senators had told her privately that she "made the case" to convict former President Donald Trump, but they still voted to acquit him.Stacey Plaskett, a Democratic delegate from the Virgin Islands, on Monday about interactions she had with unnamed Republican senators during Trump's second impeachment trial last week."I had senators, even after we presented, who stopped me in the hallway —...

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An impeachment manager says Republicans privately told her she made a compelling case to convict Trump, but they acquitted him anyway

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