Sherrod Brown: ‘Impeachment Is the Right Thing To Do’ Because Trump’s Done Things Even Beyond Nixon

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BROWN: “Well, I’m not a lawyer but I understand this whole process. Impeachment is comparable to indictment in a court of law and that’s often done in secret. Obviously, the impeachment hearings will be public, as they should. Then the trial begins. The trial is open. Both sides get to present their cases — the House impeachment members who will be prosecutors, in essence, in the Senate chamber — and then the president has his lawyers. I have said the impeachment is the right thing to do because I think that Donald Trump did things even beyond what Richard Nixon did in terms of talking to foreign powers and asking them for their help in his personal campaign and his personal reelection. I don’t know if it grounds for removal — if it reaches the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. That’s why you hold the trial. I’m hopeful that senators in both parties, all 100 of us, go into this with an open mind, not listening to our constituents and not — it’s the only time I’ll ever advocate that — not listening to our constituents, not reading our mail about it. Not being swayed by public opinion but looking at the evidence just like a judge and a jury would do in a criminal trial. It’s that — it’s that simple, in some sense, that our obligation is to do that."