Marco Rubio speaks to CNN (screen grab)
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Monday drew jeers for suggesting that he's not interested in having former Trump national security adviser John Bolton testify during President Donald Trump's Senate trial.
Writing on Twitter, Rubio said that it isn't the Senate's job to elicit testimony from witnesses and should go solely on the evidence collected by the House of Representatives contained in articles of impeachment.
"The testimony and evidence considered in a Senate impeachment trial should be the same testimony and evidence the House relied upon when they passed the Articles of Impeachment," Rubio wrote. "Our job is to vote on what the House passed, not to conduct an open ended inquiry."
Rubio's disinterest in hearing from a key impeachment witness generated an immediate backlash from his Twitter followers, many of who accused him of being a cowardly sycophant for the president.
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