‘Quit the charade’: McConnell rips into Democrats for claiming impartiality on impeachment

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took aim at Sen. Chuck Schumer for saying the Senate trial of President Trump should be impartial.

“Do you think Chuck Schumer is impartial? Do you think Elizabeth Warren is impartial? Bernie Sanders is impartial?” the Kentucky senator said Monday on Fox News about Democrats calling for an impartial Senate trial. “So let’s quit the charade. This is a political exercise. All I’m asking of Schumer is that we treat Trump the same way we treated Clinton.”

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