Stacey Plaskett: Trump Trial Needed ‘More Senators With Spines, Not More Witnesses’

Del. Stacey Plaskett, one of the House managers in former President Donald Trump’s Senate trial, defends the decision not to call witnesses.

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Just before voting Saturday to acquit former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, the Senate seemed to reverse course, with a decision not to call witnesses.

Del. Stacey Plaskett, a Democrat from the U.S. Virgin Islands who was one of the House impeachment managers, is defending the agreement between House managers and Trump’s attorneys not to call witnesses after all.

“We had no need to call any witnesses at the end of the trial because, as all Americans believed at that moment, the evidence was overwhelming,” she said in an interview Sunday with NPR’s Weekend Edition.