Sen. Mitt Romney will vote for witnesses in Trump impeachment trial - Salt Lake Tribune

Washington • As promised, Sen. Mitt Romney will vote Friday for witnesses to testify in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, though the effort to bring people with first-hand accounts before the Senate isn’t likely to garner enough votes and the president could be acquitted hours later.

The Senate will meet at 11 a.m. Utah time Friday to debate allowing witnesses or additional evidence and then move to a final vote on whether to convict the president on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

“As he’s said, he wants to hear from Bolton and thus will support the motion,” Romney spokeswoman Liz Johnson said Friday morning.

Alexander said that adding more witnesses or evidence wouldn't change that.

Trump had withheld hundreds of millions in military and State Department aid to Ukraine while at the same time asking the country's new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to announce investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, who was on the board of a Ukrainian energy company. Joe Biden is a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for president.

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Democrats argue that Trump out America's national security at risk for a personal, political benefit to help his reelection while the White House and Republicans have countered that there was no quid pro quo and the president was just trying to root out corruption.

Republicans control the Senate with 53 seats while Democrats, including two independents who caucus with them, have 47 seats. It takes 67 votes to remove a president from office.

This story will be updated.

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2020-01-31 15:01:18Z