Creepy Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler really blew it in their opening remarks on the impeachment trial. They had RINOs Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska practically begging to vote with them before this trial started. Then both Schiff and Nadler bad mouthed the Senators and pissed them off. Today, in their final remarks, Adam Schiff recited a CBS fake news lie about how a Trump confidant said that GOP senators were warned ‘… vote against the president and your head will be on a pike. After the Schiff show ended, Collins and Murkowski were both fuming.
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Though senators are supposed to sit silently during an impeachment trial, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), a crucial swing vote, could be looking to her colleagues next to her and shaking her head.
“That’s not true,” she said several times from her seat, loudly enough to be overheard from the Senate gallery.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), also viewed as a potential swing vote, immediately knocked Schiff for his rhetoric, calling it “unnecessary.”
“That’s where he lost me,” Murkowski told reporters after the trial wrapped, adding that Schiff “overreached.”
Schiff continued to reference the CBS News report, despite the audible reaction from Republicans, adding “I don’t know if that’s true, but when I read that I was struck by the irony, by the irony.”
But Republicans continued to verbally push back, with Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) overheard saying “no,” and Sen. Jim Risch (R-Wyo.) overheard adding “that’s not true.”