The Democratic House managers in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump have named the one thing he desperately wanted ― but ended up being denied ― when the GOP-controlled Senate voted to acquit him on Wednesday. “By denying the American people a fair trial, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) also deprived the president of something that he desperately sought — exoneration,” the managers wrote in an op-ed published in The Washington Post. “The president will not be vindicated, and neither will the Senate, certainly not by history,” they added. “This was not the first time he solicited foreign interference in his election, nor will it be the last,” they wrote. “But they cannot keep the full, ugly truth of the president’s conduct, and that of all the president’s men, from the American people.

Source: Huffington Post February 06, 2020 11:34 UTC