Several congressmen in the United States asked this Friday night to summon witnesses during the “impeachment” against Donald Trump, whose conclusion was scheduled for this Saturday with the final arguments of the parties.

These appeals that could lengthen and change the course of the impeachment, come after CNN published new details of a telephone conversation between Trump and Kevin McCarthy, the Republican leader in the Lower House, which occurred during the assault on the Capitol on January 6.
According to these new details, corroborated by other Republican congressmen, when McCarthy contacted the president to ask his followers to suspend the assault, he refused.
“Well Kevin, I guess these people are more angry about the election than you,” Trump would have responded to McCarthy.
The content of this call came to light once the fourth day of the impeachment trial against Trump in the Senate ended, focused on the defense of the former president (who only used 3 of his 16 available hours) and the question and answer session.
Without being scheduled for the moment to summon witnesses, the trial is expected to end this Saturday with the final arguments of both sides and the vote of conviction or acquittal.
That question-and-answer session, however, also generated unease among Republican senators, as Trump’s lawyers questioned whether one of the legislators alerted the president that his vice president, Mike Pence, was in danger.
The senator in question, Tommy Tuberville, received a call from Trump during the assault that was intended to incite him to delay certification of Joe Biden’s victory, but he responded that Pence had just been evicted.
Minutes later, Trump posted a message on Twitter criticizing his vice president as the mob stormed Congress shouting “let’s hang Mike Pence.”
Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse reacted this Friday night to the new events and called for “suspending the trial and summoning McCarthy and Tuberville under oath.”
“Tomorrow just got a lot more interesting,” he said on Twitter.
Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen also supported in an interview with CNN citing witnesses.
For her part, Republican Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler, one of 10 who voted with Democrats in favor of “impeachment” in the Lower House, urged Trump officials in a statement to say what they know.
“To the patriots who were at the side of the former president while these communications were taking place, or even the former vice president, if they have anything to add, this would be the moment,” said Beutler, who corroborated the content of the call between Trump and McCarthy.
Both parties have opted for a speedy trial in principle without witnesses as Democrats want to focus on Biden’s legislative agenda and Republicans want to turn the page on the assault as soon as possible.

To condemn Trump, 17 of the 50 Republican senators would need to vote alongside Democrats against the former president, something that until this Friday seemed highly unlikely.

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