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Trump Impeachment Trial: Live Updates

Agreement Reached To Avoid Witnesses In

Trump's Impeachment Trial
February 13, 2021 · 1:20 PM ET

BRIAN NAYLOR

On Saturday morning, senators voted to hear from Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler as a witness in the impeachment
trial. Later, an agreement allowed a statement by her into the record without calling her.
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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.

"When McCarthy finally reached the president on January 6 and asked him to publicly
and forcefully call off the riot," the statement reads, "the president initially repeated
the falsehood that it was antifa that had breached the Capitol. McCarthy refuted that
and told the president that these were Trump supporters.

That's when, according to McCarthy, the president said: 'Well, Kevin, I guess these
people are more upset about the election than you are,' " she said.

That statement is now a part of the record, and the Senate quickly moved on to closing
arguments in the trial.

Jaime Herrera Beutler

@HerreraBeutler
 6:45 PM · Feb 12, 2021

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