McConnell Mandates Unity, Senate GOP ‘United’ Behind No-Witness Impeachment Trial

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has effectively marshaled the Senate Republican caucus, according to a new report in the New York Post, and the GOP is united behind a no-witness impeachment trial — if the House ever transmits the articles of impeachment they voted on before their holiday recess.

Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) have been looking to drive a wedge between Senate Republicans by suggesting that any impeachment trial that doesn’t feature witnesses additional to those who testified in front of Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) House Intelligence Committee — the committee actually charged with gathering evidence and testimony in support of the House’s articles of impeachment — would be a show trial, and that Republicans who supported McConnell’s decision to bar witnesses would be “complicit” in the White House’s treachery.