An impeachment manager says Republicans privately told her she made a compelling case to convict Trump, but they acquitted him anyway

https://www.businessinsider.com/stacey-plaskett-republicans-privately-said-made-the-case-convict-trump-2021-2

Ashley Collman
Feb 16, 2021, 6:26 AM

A House impeachment manager said Republican senators had told her privately that she "made the case" to convict former President Donald Trump, but they still voted to acquit him.

Stacey Plaskett, a Democratic delegate from the Virgin Islands, told CNN's Chris Cuomo on Monday about interactions she had with unnamed Republican senators during Trump's second impeachment trial last week.

"I had senators, even after we presented, who stopped me in the hallway — Republicans — who said that we had made the case but yet they were going to vote to acquit the president," Plaskett said.

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"But I do believe, even though we lost that case, that we have shown who Donald Trump is. We've shown the enemy that was among us, that was attempting to lead us, that was using us for his own greed and power, and that he will not have the same power that he had, should he ever attempt to run again."