Senate Republicans are rallying around former president Trump ahead of his second impeachment trial, which is set to kick off Tuesday in the upper chamber.
Several Senate Republicans expressed their support for the embattled former president on Sunday, casting the impeachment trial as an unconstitutional waste of time.
“It is a farce, it is unconstitutional. But more than anything it’s unwise, and going to divide the country,” Republican Senator Rand Paul said.
“If we’re going to criminalize speech, and somehow impeach everybody who says, ‘Go fight to hear your voices heard,’ I mean really we ought to impeach Chuck Schumer then,” Paul said. “He went to the Supreme Court, stood in front of the Supreme Court and said specifically, ‘Hey Gorsuch, Hey Kavanaugh, you’ve unleashed a whirlwind. And you’re going to pay the price.’”
