一项新的调查显示，大约71%的共和党人认为参议院多数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔应该在唐纳德·特朗普总统弹劾案中传唤证人。
调查美国询问了4096名登记选民是否应该允许有第一手知识的证人作证，71%的共和党人、93%的民主党人和81%的独立人士说应该允许证人作证。只有15%的共和党人说他们不应该被允许作证，而4%的民主党人和7%的无党派人士说他们不应该作证。只有3%的民主党人不确定，12%的独立候选人和14%的共和党人回答不确定。
麦康奈尔周一晚间发布了一项决议，概述了特朗普弹劾审判的计划，但该决议并未保证证人作证。今年1月初，麦康奈尔表示，他计划效仿比尔·克林顿总统弹劾案的类似模式。“对克林顿总统来说足够好的东西对特朗普总统来说也足够好，”麦康奈尔说纽约时报。
麦康奈尔的办公室没有立即回复新闻周刊征求意见。
参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默叫做麦康奈尔的决心MSNBC的“国耻”早上好乔。“他的决议创造了一个审判，这个审判在尽可能少的证据下仓促进行，并且在黑夜里进行，”他说。“如果他们对自己的案子如此有信心——如果特朗普总统有信心，如果麦康奈尔有信心——那么他们为什么不想在光天化日之下这样做呢？他们为什么要在凌晨两点做事情？为什么他们说现有审判的记录不能放在这个记录里，但是我们不能有新的证人，新的文件？这真是骇人听闻。”
舒默说参议院民主党人计划对证人和文件进行强制投票。
调查还询问，如果特朗普的团队试图阻止证人作证，参议院应该怎么做。共和党人在这个问题上的分歧稍微均衡一些，32%的人说参议院应该“向总统屈服，在没有证人证词的情况下做出裁决”。“另外27%的人说他们应该坚持证人作证，25%的人说他们应该寻求最高法院的干预。大多数民主党人(63%)说参议院应该坚持证人作证，而30%的人说最高法院应该干预，只有5%的人说参议院应该让步。比民主党人和共和党人更多的独立人士表示，参议院应该要求最高法院介入，33%的人表示他们应该坚持证人作证，12%的人表示他们应该让步。
美国参议院多数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔于2020年1月16日抵达华盛顿特区的美国国会大厦
71% OF REPUBLICANS WANT MITCH MCCONNELL TO CALL WITNESSES AT TRUMP IMPEACHMENT TRIAL, NEW POLL SHOWS
About 71 percent of Republicans believe that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should call witnesses during President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, a new survey showed.
SurveyUSA asked 4,096 registered voters whether witnesses with firsthand knowledge should be allowed to testify, with 71 percent of Republicans, 93 percent of Democrats, and 81 percent of Independents saying witnesses should be allowed to testify. Only 15 percent of Republicans said that they should not be allowed to testify, while 4 percent of Democrats, and 7 percent of Independents said they shouldn't. Only 3 percent of Democrats were unsure, with 12 percent of Independents and 14 percent of Republicans answering not sure.
McConnell released a resolution outlining a plan for Trump's impeachment trial late Monday night that did not guarantee witness testimony. Earlier in January, McConnell said he planned to follow a similar model to that of President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial. "What was good enough for President Clinton is good enough for President Trump," McConnell said, according to The New York Times.
McConnell's office did not immediately respond to Newsweek's request for comment.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called McConnell's resolution a "national disgrace" on MSNBC's Morning Joe. "His resolution creates a trial that is rushed with as little evidence as possible, and done in the dark of night," he said. "If they were so confident of their case—if President Trump were, if McConnell were—then why wouldn't they want it in broad daylight? Why are they trying to do things at two in the morning? Why are they saying the record of the existing trial cannot be put in this record but then we can't have new witnesses, new documents? This is just appalling."
Schumer said that Senate Democrats plan to force votes on witnesses and documents.
The survey also asked what the Senate should do if Trump's team tries to prevent witnesses from testifying. Republicans were a little more evenly split on this issue, with 32 percent saying that the Senate should "yield to the president and reach a verdict without the witness' testimony." Another 27 percent said they should insist the witness testify and 25 percent said they should seek the Supreme Court's intervention. The majority of Democrats, or 63 percent, said that Senate should insist that witnesses testify, while 30 percent said the Supreme Court should intervene and only 5 percent said the Senate should yield. More Independents than Democrats and Republicans said the Senate should ask the Supreme Court to intervene with 33 percent, while 44 percent said they should insist on witnesses testifying and 12 percent said they should yield.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) arrives at the U.S. Capitol January 16, 2020, in Washington, D.C.
