White House Counsel Pat Cipollone met with GOP senators today to discuss what a trial might look like if the House impeaches Trump
White House counsel Pat Cipollone met with Senate Republicans for lunch on Wednesday to denigrate the impeachment proceedings in the House and plot strategy for the likely Senate trial, the latest example of increasing coordination between the president and senators who will determine his fate.
“The president’s counsel said enough times that he wanted to be sure we heard it, that even though they’re talking about what they may do if it comes here ... they clearly don’t believe — based on what’s happened so far — that the House shouldCipollone’s lunch comes amid rising White House outreach to Senate Republicans. A small group of GOP senators huddled with him before Thanksgiving and agreed that the Senate will likely hold a full trial rather than immediately try to dismiss it.
GOP senators at the lunch said the White House counsel was careful not to dictate anything to the Senate other than to say the chamber can and should give the president a better deal than the House.
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