Sen. Roy Blunt is predicting that President Trump will be found not guilty by the Senate before he gives the State of the Union address on Feb. 4.
Speaking with Wake Up Columbia on Missouri radio station KSSZ, the Missouri Republican said House Democrats have had plenty of time to make their case for impeachment and that Trump will have “a chance for his lawyers to explain why he shouldn’t be (impeached), and then we’ll have that vote and move on.”
The State of the Union is scheduled for a day after the Iowa caucuses this year, which would mean a quick trial of fewer than four weeks in the Senate.
Republicans control the majority in the Senate, and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has made it clear that he anticipates a swift vote, stating that both sides have “heard enough.”
“Have we learned enough after listening to all of this to go on and vote on the two very weak articles of impeachment?” McConnell said after the two articles passed. “Or do we have a show trial in which both sides try to embarrass the other and put on an embarrassing scene, frankly, for the American people?”
Blunt added that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had not fulfilled her promise when the investigation began of a bipartisan impeachment.
“Nancy Pelosi said at the very start of the year that if impeachment wasn’t bipartisan, it wouldn’t work,” said Blunt. “And it clearly was not bipartisan in the House, not a single Republican voted for the articles of impeachment, and a couple of Democrats didn’t, either.”
Blunt stated he believes a Senate trial would be “pretty predictable” and would happen “quickly.”
