Democratic senator claims GOP colleagues privately 'admit they acquitted Trump out of fear'
by Mike Brest
| February 06, 2020 09:05 AM
Sen. Sherrod Brown claimed his Republican colleagues are privately acknowledging that they acquitted President Trump out of fear and for self-preservation.
Brown, 67, wrote a Wednesday op-ed for the New York Times after Trump was acquitted on both articles of impeachment, during which Utah GOP Sen. Mitt Romney was the only member of his party who cast a vote to convict. The piece, titled "In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear," began with a comparison to the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq, which was up for a vote just weeks before that year's midterm elections.
The Ohio Democrat said the moment Rep. Adam Schiff read a CBS News report on the floor of the Senate trial, which alleged that a Trump confidant had threatened GOP members who were considering bucking the party on the vote, revealed to him that the California congressman "had clearly struck a nerve" with Republicans.
"In the words of Lizzo: truth hurts," he wrote, referencing the singer's hit song.
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