众议院议长南希·佩洛西和参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默抨击共和党参议员投票反对在唐纳德·特朗普总统弹劾案中提供新证据和证人。
民主主义者曾希望得到四名共和党人的支持为了获得多数，但最终共和党通配符阿拉斯加州的莉萨·穆尔科斯基和田纳西州的拉马尔·亚历山大和他们的政党一起。苏珊·科林斯(缅因州)和米特·罗姆尼(犹他州)是唯一支持民主党的共和党参议员，该动议以51票对49票被否决。
佩洛西在一份声明中说，投票反对该动议的参议院共和党人是“总统掩盖真相的帮凶”
“总统因滥用权力和阻挠国会而被弹劾。他被永远弹劾。没有审判就不可能无罪释放。没有证人、文件和证据就没有审判。
“对于美国来说，看到参议员麦康奈尔要求美国首席大法官主持投票，否决了美国维护宪法和法治的司法规范、先例和机构，真是悲哀的一天。”
2020年1月30日，DC华盛顿，众议院议长南希·佩洛西在美国国会大厦的每周新闻发布会上发表讲话。她猛烈抨击参议院投票不允许唐纳德·特朗普弹劾案中有更多证人或证据。
参议院民主党领袖查克·舒默将这一结果描述为“一场巨大的悲剧，参议院有史以来克服的最严重的悲剧之一”
他在一份声明中说:“美国将会记住这一天——那一天，联合参议院没有尽到自己的责任，背离了事实，反而进行了一场虚假的审判。
“如果总统在没有证人、没有文件的情况下被无罪释放，任何无罪释放都没有价值，因为美国人会知道这次审判不是真正的审判。这是一场大规模的悲剧。”
参议院多数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔对投票结果起了重要作用。麦康奈尔本周早些时候告诉共和党参议员，如果有更多的证人导致弹劾审判旷日持久，脆弱的共和党在选举中面临风险。
麦康奈尔在一份声明中表示，投票显示，“众多证人和28，000多页文件已经成为证据，足以对众议院管理人员的指控做出判断，并结束弹劾审判。"
“在参议院历史上，该机构从未暂停弹劾审判，以追捕更多有悬而未决的行政特权问题的证人，这些问题需要旷日持久的诉讼。我们没有兴趣建立这样一个新的先例，特别是对于众议院明确选择不追究的个人。”
民主党人曾希望前者国家安全顾问约翰·博尔顿可能是一个关键证人，尤其是在有报道称他即将出版的回忆录详细描述了总统打算如何在宣布调查特朗普否认的对手乔·拜登和他的儿子亨特之前拒绝向乌克兰提供军事援助。
特朗普的前幕僚长约翰·凯利(John Kelly)对不提供进一步证据的举措表示批评，称此举让共和党“面临许多批评”
根据NJ.com的说法，凯利说:“这似乎是半个试验。”
投票意味着这将是美国历史上第一次没有证人在场的总统弹劾审判周三参议院投票宣布特朗普无罪。
PELOSI BRANDS REPUBLICAN SENATORS 'ACCOMPLICES TO THE PRESIDENT'S COVER-UP,' SCHUMER DECRIES 'SHAM TRIAL'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer slammed GOP senators who voted against allowing new evidence and witnesses to be presented in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial.
Democrats had hoped for the support of four Republicans to get a majority but in the end GOP wildcards Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee went with their party. Susan Collins (Maine) and Mitt Romney (Utah) were the only Republican senators who backed the Democrats in the motion which was voted down by 51-49.
In a statement, Pelosi said that Senate Republicans who voted against the motion were "accomplices to the President's cover-up."
"The President was impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. He is impeached forever. There can be no acquittal without a trial. And there is no trial without witnesses, documents and evidence.
"It is a sad day for America to see Senator McConnell require the Chief Justice of the United States to preside over a vote which rejected our nation's judicial norms, precedents and institutions to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law."
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks at her weekly press conference at the U.S. Capitol on January 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. She has slammed the vote in the Senate not to allow further witnesses or evidence in Donald Trump's impeachment trial.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer described the result as "a grand tragedy, one of the worst tragedies that the Senate has ever overcome."
He said in a statement: "America will remember this day—a day when the United Senate did not live up to its responsibilities, turned away from truth and instead went along with a sham trial.
"If the president is acquitted with no witnesses, no documents, any acquittal will have no value because Americans will know that this trial was not a real trial. It's a tragedy on a very large scale."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was instrumental to the vote result. McConnell told Republican senators earlier in the week that vulnerable GOPs were at risk in the election if there was a protracted impeachment trial caused by more witnesses.
In a statement, McConnell said that the vote showed "the numerous witnesses and 28,000-plus pages of documents already in evidence are sufficient to judge the House Managers' accusations and end this impeachment trial."
"Never in Senate history has this body paused an impeachment trial to pursue additional witnesses with unresolved questions of executive privilege that would require protracted litigation. We have no interest in establishing such a new precedent, particularly for individuals whom the House expressly chose not to pursue."
The Democrats had hoped that former national security adviser John Bolton could be a key witness, especially following reports that his upcoming memoir details how the president intended to withhold military aid to Ukraine until it announced probes into the his rival Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, claims that Trump denies.
Trump's former chief-of-staff, John Kelly, was critical of the move not to have further evidence given, saying it leaves the GOP "open to a lot of criticism."
"It seems it was half a trial," Kelly said, according to NJ.com.
The vote means that it will be the first presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history without witnesses, paving the way for the acquittal of Trump in a Senate vote on Wednesday.
