She acknowledged it might be have been more accurate to say she "hopes" the president did.
Collins said Tuesday that she would vote to acquit President Donald Trump and that he had learned a lesson from the Ukraine scandal and his impeachment. When Trump was asked to comment on Collins’ assertion, he once again declared he’d done nothing wrong: “It was a perfect call,” he said of his conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
On Wednesday, Collins told a reporter from Maine outlet WGME-TV that she used the wrong verb when discussing the potential impact of impeachment on the president.She now says she probably shouldn't have said that she"believes" Pres.
The point of the #impeachment process and the #SenateTrial of a sitting president is not to determine whether the executive office-holder has learned a lesson, @SenatorCollins. The point is to determine guilt. And @POTUS is #guilty. #ConvictAndRemove. @dsccHope springs eternal for the 73-year-old president who has literally never admitted fault for anything or acted in anything but his own self-interest. https://t.
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