The Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump won’t be hearing from witnesses after all.
After a two-hour break in the trial following a Senate vote to allow for witnesses, House managers and Trump’s attorneys agreed to stipulate that a statement released Friday by Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., could be entered into the trial record. The deal averted a showdown between the two sides over whether to call Herrera Beutler and possibly many other witnesses — a development that could have delayed the trial’s conclusion and the Senate’s other business for weeks.
In her statement, Herrera Beutler related a conversation she had with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., about a call he had with President Donald Trump on Jan. 6.
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