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James Inhofe of Oklahoma said that he will vote to acquit Trump on both articles of impeachment: “I think you know how I’m going to vote,” the Oklahoma Republican said in a speech on the Senate floor, “I’m going to vote to acquit the president on both articles of impeachment.”
Inhofe said House Democrats had presented no evidence that Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine to force that country to conduct investigations that might help Trump politically. The House investigation centered around the partial transcript of a phone call last July between Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“There was nothing wrong with President Trump’s phone call with President Zelensky,” Inhofe said, adding that the witnesses interviewed in the House investigation provided only second-hand information.
Inhofe, who has been in the Senate since 1994, voted in 1999 to remove former President Bill Clinton from office for lying under oath and obstruction of justice.
In his remarks, Inhofe said that Clinton had admitted perjury before “he was even impeached,” but Clinton had not done that. Inhofe said that he listened to the lawyers during the Trump impeachment trial in the last two weeks “and quite frankly, some of them I didn’t understand what they were saying. But I do know pretty much what’s going on around here. And in this case, the reasons behind why the president should not be impeached are common sense: He didn’t commit a crime.”
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Sen. James Inhofe's speech in Senate Trump impeachment trial (Feb 3, 2020) https://t.co/UvIf0q66oh
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