Eventually, even this proved insufficient amusement, and Paul, though required to be at his desk, left the trial entirely for a long block of time. Minutes before the trial opened in earnest on Wednesday, Paul took Trump up on the president’s stated wish to watch the trial from the “front row.” Paul tweeted a photo of a gallery ticket and said, “Mr. (Unlike during President Bill Clinton’s impeachment, gallery tickets make no mention of an impeachment trial.) Some of Paul’s Republican Senate colleagues were only slightly better behaved as the House managers presented the evidence. Reading from Federalist 65, Schiff quoted Alexander Hamilton: “Where else than in the Senate could have been found a tribunal sufficiently dignified” to conduct an impeachment trial with “the necessary impartiality”?

Source: Washington Post January 23, 2020 03:33 UTC