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Republicans Bless Trump’s Crimes: He Did It, Get Over It

‘OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE’

The senator says there’s no need for witnesses since voters, not senators, should judge Trump—but the overwhelming majority of voters wanted senators to call witnesses.

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In 1967, Lamar Alexander came to Washington from his native Tennessee to serve as an aide to Howard Baker, the Republican senator from his home state who later helped to expose the White House tapes that sealed President Richard Nixon’s fate.

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