As House Democrats conducted another impeachment hearing, President Trump lunched with a group of lawmakers who might well decide his political fate: Republican senators.
Trump meets with Romney, Collins, other Republican senators at White House during impeachment hearingWASHINGTON – As House Democrats conducted another impeachment hearing, President Donald Trump lunched Thursday with a group of lawmakers who might well decide his political fate: Republican senators.
"Keep fighting tough, Republicans, you are dealing with human scum who have taken Due Process and all of the Republican Party’s rights away from us during the most unfair hearings in American History," Trump tweeted.Trump did not define"turf," but Republicans do control the Senate and would conduct a trial of Trump if House Democrats decide to impeach him.
Officials said Trump has probably spoken, either individually or in groups, with all 53 Republican senators – all jurors in a potential impeachment. Two officials discussed the outreach on condition of anonymity, citing the private nature of the meetings. Romney, a long-time rival of Trump, has criticized Trump for asking the president of Ukraine to investigate political rival Joe Biden. Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, called Trump's actions"wrong and appalling."The two men also clashed during Trump's 2016 campaign. During the primary process, Romney cast the New York businessman as a threat to the Republican Party, while Trump branded Romney"a loser.
House impeachment investigators are also looking into evidence that Trump halted military aid to Ukraine if it did not agree to investigate Biden and his son Hunter Biden, who had business interests in the state.
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