{"id":141545,"date":"2020-02-05T09:20:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T09:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/collins-will-vote-to-acquit-trump-says-president-has-learned-from-this-case\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T09:20:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T09:20:21","slug":"collins-will-vote-to-acquit-trump-says-president-has-learned-from-this-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/collins-will-vote-to-acquit-trump-says-president-has-learned-from-this-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Collins Will Vote to Acquit Trump, Says President Has \u2018Learned From This Case\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced she will vote to acquit President Donald Trump, just days after she and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) voted to call in witnesses.<\/p>\n

Fellow moderates Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) also said they would acquit, raising the possibility for a bipartisan acquittal for Trump in the Senate.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that the president has learned from this case,\u201d Collins told CBS News<\/a> on Feb. 4, adding that Trump\u2019s impeachment by the House of Representatives was \u201ca pretty big lesson.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Senate plans to vote Feb. 5 on whether to acquit or convict Trump for charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, stemming from his dealings with Ukraine. It\u2019s highly likely that Trump will be acquitted, as the Senate has a 67-vote threshold for removing a sitting president.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m voting to acquit. Because I do not believe that the behavior alleged reaches the high bar in the Constitution for overturning an election and removing a duly elected president,\u201d Collins said, adding that Trump\u2019s actions didn\u2019t amount to high crimes or misdemeanors.<\/p>\n

The Maine Republican said she believes that the critical words offered by senators on the floor will make Trump reconsider how he handles foreign aid in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been criticism by both Republican and Democratic senators of his call,\u201d Collins said. \u201cI believe that he will be much more cautious in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

The impeachment centered around a whistleblower complaint about Trump\u2019s July 25, 2019, phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during which Trump asked Zelensky about whether the Ukrainian president could \u201clook into\u201d allegations of 2016 election interference and the activities of both Joe and Hunter Biden. Democrats said Trump withheld aid from Kyiv to exert pRead More \u2013 Source<\/a>
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