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As many already know, House Democrats are shouting from the rooftops that Senate Republicans will be unfair in President Trump's impeachment trial. Chuck Schumer has personally even called out Mitch McConnell multiple times insisting that McConnell won't be an "impartial juror".
“Let the American people hear it loud and clear, the Republican leader said, proudly, ‘I’m not an impartial juror. I’m not impartial about this at all.’ That is an astonishing admission of partisanship,” Schumer whined on from the floor before the Senate departed for a two-week vacation.
However now, according to the Gateway Pundit, new evidence has surfaced that proves Schumer did the exact same thing that he's complaining about in 1999 during Bill Clinton's impeachment trial.
According to CNN's KFile, “Schumer noted that senators had previously formed opinions heading into the trial and that the Senate was ‘not like a jury box.'”
Then in an attempt to cover his tracks, Schumer's spokesman insisted that “his statements came after the conclusion of the Starr investigation.” However, nearly every Senate Democrat still voted to aquit Clinton. Funny.
Schumer didn't just stop there. In an interview with Larry King in 1999, Schumer stated that Senators weren't jurors.
“We have a pre-opinion,” Schumer said, citing himself and two newly-elected Republican senators who had voted on impeachment in 1998 as members of the House of Representatives who said they would vote in the Senate. “This is not a criminal trial, but this is something that the Founding Fathers decided to put in a body that was susceptible to the whims of politics.”
“So therefore, anybody taking an oath tomorrow can have a pre-opinion; it’s not a jury box,” King asked Schumer.
“Many do,” Schumer responded. “And then they change. In fact, it’s also not like a jury box in the sense that people will call us and lobby us. You don’t have jurors called and lobbied and things like that. I mean, it’s quite different than a jury. And we’re also the judge.”
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