McConnell: Holding articles of impeachment gives Pelosi no leverage
BY ALEXANDER BOLTON - 12/19/19 12:30 PM EST
“It’s beyond me how the Speaker and Democratic leader in the Senate think withholding the articles of impeachment and not sending them over gives them leverage, is beyond me,” McConnell told reporters after criticizing the House impeachment effort in a lengthy floor speech.
“Frankly, I’m not anxious to have the trial. If she thinks her case is so weak she doesn’t want to send it over, throw me into that briar patch,” McConnell added.
He also mocked House Democrats as being afraid to submit their two articles of impeachment to the Senate.
“The prosecutors are getting cold feet in front of the entire country and second-guessing whether they even want to go to trial,” he said. “They said impeachment was so urgent that it could not even wait for due process but now they’re content to sit on their hands. It is comical.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/475307-mcconnell-holding-articles-of-impeachment-gives-pelosi-no-leverage