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?He shouldn?t have done it.? GOP senator who scolded Trump on Ukraine explains why he backs acquittal


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Had even a few House Republicans voted in favor, he might have viewed the case differently.More:Final vote in Trump impeachment trial will occur Wednesday – live impeachment updatesBut, "we were all a long way from that here,” he said during an interview Friday with USA TODAY in a small, hideaway office Alexander uses in the Capitol.The senator said he believed the House proved its case that Trump withheld nearly $400 million in military aid last year in part to pressure Ukraine into investigating his political rivals, notably former Vice President Joe Biden. But that act, while “inappropriate,” was not impeachable, he said.The impeachment book Alexander relied on for perspective was published in 2018, months before revelations about Trump’s efforts to squeeze Ukraine became the subject of an impeachment inquiry.Since then, one of the authors, Vanderbilt Political Science Professor Jon Meacham, has joined more than 2,000 experts in signing a letter calling the president’s pressure on Ukraine and his ensuing obstruction of Congress “lawless,” “brazen,” and worthy of impeachment.The political circumstances surrounding the December 1998 impeachment of Bill Clinton over his sexual conduct with a White House intern were different from today.Twenty-one years ago, the Senate was controlled by Clinton's political opponents in the Republican party, giving the president little chance of influencing the process. One of the articles was approved when a handful of Democrats joined most Republicans in voting for it.Democrats alone voted to impeach Trump on both articles that came before the House, which Alexander considered a problem.More:Senate impeachment trial: Fact-checking opening arguments of Trump's defense team“I was reminded during the arguments of how the founders, James Madison particularly, felt there should never ever be a wholly partisan impeachment,” he said, pointing to presentations by Trump’s counsel.The rules the Senate adopted in January to hold Trump’s impeachment trial also are different than Clinton's.

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