'Impeachment is a political decision. The House made a partisan political decision to impeach,' McConnell said on Tuesday. 'I'm not impartial about this at all.'
McConnell has been decried by Democrats over his partisan stance on the impeachment proceedings.
Responding to the Republican leader's comments, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday said: "I am utterly amazed what Mitch McConnell said." The House is poised to impeach Trump on Wednesay, when it's set to hold a vote on two articles of impeachment approved by the House Judiciary Committee last Friday. The impeachment process will then move on to a trial in the GOP-controlled Senate.
Senators, who will serve as jurors, will take an oath of impartiality at the start of the trial. But McConnell, as well as other Senate Republicans such as Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, are seemingly of the belief they are not beholden to this oath in what they view as a nakedly partisan process.Graham told CNN
: "I am trying to give a pretty clear signal I have made up my mind. I'm not trying to pretend to be a fair juror here." Graham dismissed the impeachment proceedings as "partisan nonsense." NOW WATCH:
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