Impeachment trial: Donald Trump’s attorney reach compromise to circumvent witnesses

President Donald Trump’s attorney and democratic lawmakers ready to reach compromises to get round witnesses reached a deal to enter an asseveration from Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash into a record-setting up an end to the trial later Saturday and avoiding a lengthier trial after the Senate voted earlier the same day to call witnesses.

According to the statement released on Friday by Herrera Beutler she had talked with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy R-Calif. ensuing Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. McCarthy told her Trump had seemed unconcerned by the attack, trying to blame it on “Antifa.” When McCarthy asserted that they were Trump supporters. President replied, “Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.”

Democratic impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., read aloud a statement from Herrera Beutler on McCarthy’s phone call with former President Donald Trump into the record, and then neither side moved to call any additional witnesses.

As details of the deal trickled out earlier Saturday, lawmakers signaled they would support it. Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, told media, “I think it’s a reasonable deal,” and Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., a Biden confidant, told reporters, “I think most senators would support that.”

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, who had voted earlier along with four Republican senators to call witnesses, told reporters, he would support a potential deal, though he would have also supported both sides calling witnesses if they wanted to do so.

“If they’ve reached an agreement,” Romney said, “then that would be great.”