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McConnell tells Republican senators he will vote to acquit Trump in impeachment trial



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Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell arrives at the US Capitol for the fifth day of the second impeachment trial of former US President Donald Trump, on February 13, 2021, in Washington, DC.Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty ImagesSenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told his Republican colleagues in an email on Saturday that he will vote to acquit Donald Trump in the former president’s second impeachment trial.”While a close call, I am persuaded that impeachments are a tool primarily of removal and we therefore lack jurisdiction,” McConnell wrote. The Kentucky Senator also noted that criminal misconduct by a president while in office …

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