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DeFazio: Senate Impeachment Trial Becoming 'Cover Up'

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With the Senate impeachment trial winding down, Representative Peter DeFazio says the process appears orchestrated to favor President Trump.

The Oregon Democrat says the whole experience has been “through the Looking Glass weird” in terms of the process conducted through the Republican-led Senate.

Also causing ripples is Trump’s former security advisor, John Bolton.  Portions of his unpublished book reportedly contradict claims made by the president’s defense team on military aid to Ukraine. 

The second and final day of questioning precedes a critical vote that would allow witnesses to testify. 

DeFazio – and fellow Democrats – are pushing for that.

”Unfortunately it appears like the Senate is swinging back toward not calling witnesses," DeFazio tells KLCC. "And the Trump Administration is talking about embargoing Bolton’s book until after the presidential election. So we’re in the midst of an unbelievably massive cover-up here.”

Trump’s defense lawyers say the impeachment process is really about Democrats wanting to disrupt the 2020 election.

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Brian Bull is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Oregon, and remains a contributor to the KLCC news department. He began working with KLCC in June 2016.   In his 27+ years as a public media journalist, he's worked at NPR, Twin Cities Public Television, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Wisconsin Public Radio, and ideastream in Cleveland. His reporting has netted dozens of accolades, including four national Edward R. Murrow Awards (22 regional),  the Ohio Associated Press' Best Reporter Award, Best Radio Reporter from  the Native American Journalists Association, and the PRNDI/NEFE Award for Excellence in Consumer Finance Reporting.
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