Mitt being Mitt. But current scuttlebutt is they don’t have the four they would need.
Sen. Mitt Romney has indicated he will probably support the push from Democrats to call additional witnesses to testify in President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial.
“I think it’s very likely I’ll be in favor of witnesses, but I haven’t made a decision finally yet, and I won’t until the testimony is completed,” Romney told reporters Saturday.
Romney is one of a handful of key Republican senators that House impeachment managers are seeking to convince to allow more documents and witnesses as evidence in the trial. Chief among these is the testimony of John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser. Democrats believe Bolton knows more about Trump’s effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate the president’s political rival, Joe Biden.
Romney’s comments echoed similar remarks he made earlier this month when he said: “I would like to be able to hear from John Bolton. What the process is to make that happen, I don’t have an answer for you.”
A House impeachment investigation found that a slew of Trump associates waged a campaign of shadow diplomacy in Ukraine while vital military aid and a White House visit were temporarily withheld from the war-torn country. During a July 25, 2019, phone call, Trump asked the president of Ukraine to “do us a favor” and investigate corruption allegations against Biden.