PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Democratic U.S. Sens. Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island voted for both articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Wednesday.
Trump won impeachment acquittal Wednesday in the U.S. Senate, bringing to a close only the third presidential trial in American history.
Reed said Trump was wrong to “invite foreign interference in our democracy” and wrong to try to stonewall the investigation.
“But at this critical moment, clouded by the fog of President Trump’s misconduct, the Senate majority has lost its way and declined to be guided by our Constitution,” Reed said in a statement.
Whitehouse said the facts are clear, the conduct impeachable and the obstruction unprecedented.
“And yet the White House and its allies in the Senate have stymied the Constitution’s process for removing a corrupt president,” he said in a statement.
Reed and Whitehouse both took issue with the fact that witnesses were not called.
A majority of senators expressed unease with Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine that resulted in the two articles of impeachment, but the final tallies fell far short. Trump claims he did nothing wrong.
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