LOS ANGELES — Elizabeth Warren is ready to convict President Trump should the Senate hold a trial over his impeachment.
When asked whether she’d seen enough evidence to vote in favor of removing the current occupant of the White House from office, Warren, who is closing in on Democratic 2020 front-runner former Vice President Joe Biden in the polls, provided a one-word answer.
“Yes,” she told reporters on the sidelines of the SEIU Unions for All Summit.
“I think the evidence is clear. When Donald Trump released the transcript in which he solicited a foreign government to interfere in the 2020 elections, he broke the law and he did that in context of already having interfered with an investigation into the 2016 elections and Russia being invited to interfere in our elections,” Warren said. “He’s made it clear that the law doesn’t apply to him and the point of the federal government is to put whatever resources at his disposal to protect himself politically and financially. That is not the case.”
She added, “What he has done is an impeachable offense, and he should be impeached.”
Warren, the senior senator for Massachusetts, is one of 100 members of the upper chamber who will take part in a Senate trial if the House passes articles of impeachment. Impeachment proceedings were instigated by revelations Trump asked Ukraine for help in digging up political dirt on Biden and his family.
Warren is one of six 2020 Democrats who could vote on whether to impeach Trump. The other candidates are Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kamala Harris of California, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, and Michael Bennet of Colorado. Some conservative critics are calling on the group to recuse themselves from the trial, arguing their participation could be a conflict of interest.
