GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) — Wisconsin’s US Senators are gearing up for a trial in the senate, expected to come after the US House approves articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. It’s an issue expected to see votes primarily among partisan lines.
It’s another point of disagreement between Republican US Senator Ron Johnson and Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin.
Johnson has been an outspoken critic of the impeachment process.
“It’s very ‘Alice in Wonderland’ like,” Johnson said on WTAQ’s ‘The Morning News with Matt and Earl’. “Verdict first, trial later.”
Wisconsin’s Democratic Senator, Tammy Baldwin, has supported the impeachment effort from it’s earliest days.
“The impeachment inquiry was something I was strongly in support of once I saw the log that the White House itself released of the call between President Trump and President [Volodymyr] Zelensky of Ukraine,” Baldwin said the very next day on ‘The Morning News with Matt and Earl’. “It was so troubling to me to see…where President Trump solicited foreign interference in our upcoming election.”
Johnson says there was nothing criminal about President Trump’s call with President Zelensky earlier this year.
“Most, if not all, US foreign aid is conditioned on something,” Johnson said. “So there’s nothing wrong with the President of the United States trying to satisfy himself or herself that the country that we’re giving hard-earned taxpayer dollars to isn’t a totally corrupt place.”
The impeachment process began after an anonymous whistleblower reported on a call between Presidents Trump and Zelensky in which President Trump asked the Ukrainian President to investigate the Biden Family’s connections to Burisma, a Ukranian Energy firm. Hunter Biden, former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, served on the board of that company. Democrats say the question amounts to a quid-pro-quo and that the President withheld foreign aid in exchange for a public announcement of an investigation into the Bidens.
A house vote on impeachment articles is expected later this month. Senate Leader Mitch McConnell says he would like a “quick” senate trial, which is expected next month.
