Feinstein says she's a maybe on acquitting Trump as his defense team ends impeachment arguments

[Meeker]

Feinstein says she’s a maybe on acquitting Trump as his defense team ends impeachment arguments
Los Angeles Times

Just after President Trump’s defense lawyers ended arguments in their Senate trial Tuesday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein suggested she could vote to acquit him, despite serious concerns about his character.

“Nine months left to go, the people should judge. We are a republic, we are based on the will of the people — the people should judge,” Feinstein said Tuesday, after the president’s team finished a three-day presentation in his defense. “That was my view and it still is my view.”

Still, she indicated that arguments in the trial about Trump’s character and fitness for office had left her undecided. “What changed my opinion as this went on,” she said, is a realization that “impeachment isn’t about one offense. It’s really about the character and ability and physical and mental fitness of the individual to serve the people, not themselves.”

Asked whether she would ultimately vote to acquit, she demurred, saying, “We’re not finished.”

After those remarks were published, Feinstein issued a statement saying she had been misunderstood.

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I wonder what is really going on.

[rzemanfl]

1. Bad reporting. n/t

[still_one]

10. Absolutely. The LA Times in the last year or so has really been pushing shoddy

journalism

Feinstein is not going to vote to acquit

[Kingofalldems]

2. Nope.

Link to tweet

[Meeker]

4. +1 n/t

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

9. Another +1

OP needs to correct title.

[still_one]

11. I have really been disappointed in the LA Times reporting, or should I say misreporting

[calguy]

3. Not true

She already released a clarification of her misinterpreted comments by the LA Times.

[hlthe2b]

5. This has already been refuted by the actual reporter who asked the question. Not true

[dewsgirl]

6. After giving several of us here at DU, full blown panic attacks,

it turns out that was incorrect.

[TubbersUK]

7. Nope :

Link to tweet

?s=20

[stillcool]

8. been there, done that...