The Washington Post editorial board has called out “the cringing shamefulness” of Republican senators’ decision on Friday to block witnesses from testifying in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. The board wrote in an op-ed ― titled “The cringing abdication of Senate Republicans” ― that GOP lawmakers who voted “to suppress known but unexamined evidence” of Trump’s Ukraine misconduct must have calculated “the wrath of a vindictive president is more dangerous than the sensible judgment of the American people” who polls showed wanted to hear testimony. The board dismantled the “weak and contradictory” reasons given by GOP Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) and Marco Rubio (Fla.) for voting against witnesses before predicting “Americans who object to Mr. Trump’s relentless stonewalling and Republicans’ complicity can take some comfort in the prospect that most or all of the evidence the White House is hiding will eventually come out.”“We can hope only that voters who wanted that evidence to be heard in the trial will respond by showing incumbent senators they are a force to be reckoned with, as much as the bully in the White House,” the board concluded. Read the full editorial here.

Source: Huffington Post February 01, 2020 08:48 UTC