Senator calls for suspension of Trump impeachment trial
Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse suggested the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump should be suspended over “misrepresentations” made by his defense lawyer Michael van der Veen during the Senate trial.
“Trump’s lawyers are likely under ethics obligation to clean this up: duty of candor to a tribunal. You don’t get as counsel to make misrepresentations; if you do, you have an affirmative duty to clean it up. Tomorrow just got a lot more interesting,” Whitehouse wrote on Twitter, referring to new witness testimony that contradicts statements made by Trump’s impeachment defense lawyer.
The Senate will reconvene on Saturday for a final vote on whether to convict Trump after the former president was impeached earlier this year for “inciting an insurrection.”
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