When the Senate embarks Tuesday on the impeachment trial of President Trump, he plans to be thousands of miles away at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
because the swanky meetings fell during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, an impasse that furloughed federal workers and contractors. In the run up to this year's event, reporters peppered Trump on whether he would follow through with his plans and leave the country during his impeachment trial.
, the independent counsel who prosecuted President Bill Clinton's impeachment, and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz.Under normal circumstances Trump might not have gone, speculated Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In the fall of 1998, after testifying via video to a grand jury, Clinton took trips to Russia, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Asia and the Middle East. Clinton was ultimately impeached but was acquitted in the Senate trial.
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