House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday named the lawmakers who will serve as managers in the Senate impeachment trial against President Donald Trump.
Pelosi, D-Calif., named as managers Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif.; Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y.; and Reps. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.; Val Demings, D-Fla.; Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif.; Jason Crow, D-Colo.; and Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas.
Pelosi named Schiff the lead manager. All of the managers are lawyers except for Demings, who was Orlando’s police chief. Jeffries, the Democratic Caucus chairman, is the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House. Crow was the only manager who doesn’t serve on one of the committees that investigated Trump, but he is a former Army Ranger who was a lawyer in private practice.
“Today is an important day,” Pelosi said. “The emphasis is making the strongest possible case to protect and defend our Constitution, to seek the truth for the American people.”
Trump: impeachment a ‘hoax’
Trump at the White House praised his Republican defenders while noting the looming House vote to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate
“They have a hoax going on over there. Let’s take care of it,” Trump said during a ceremony announcing a China trade agreement.
He commended House Republicans for voting unanimously against his impeachment.
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