Elizabeth Warren says she's seen enough evidence to convict Trump in Senate impeachment trial
by Naomi Lim
& Joseph Simonson
| October 04, 2019 06:56 PM
LOS ANGELES — Elizabeth Warren is ready to convict President Trump should the Senate hold a trial over his impeachment.
When asked whether she'd seen enough evidence to vote in favor of removing the current occupant of the White House from office, Warren, who is closing in on Democratic 2020 front-runner former Vice President Joe Biden in the polls, provided a one-word answer.
"Yes," she told reporters on the sidelines of the SEIU Unions for All Summit.
"I think the evidence is clear. When Donald Trump released the transcript in which he solicited a foreign government to interfere in the 2020 elections, he broke the law and he did that in context of already having interfered with an investigation into the 2016 elections and Russia being invited to interfere in our elections," Warren said. "He’s made it clear that the law doesn’t apply to him and the point of the federal government is to put whatever resources at his disposal to protect himself politically and financially. That is not the case."
She added, "What he has done is an impeachable offense, and he should be impeached.â€
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