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Two Key Republicans at Odds Over Trump Impeachment Trial

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - Two key U.S. Republican senators -- Marco Rubio and Mitt
   Romney -- disagreed sharply Sunday about the merits of the upcoming
   Senate impeachment trial of former Republican President Donald Trump,
   who is accused of inciting insurrection in the storming of the U.S.
   Capitol by hundreds of his supporters on January 6.

   At a rally near the White House that day, Trump urged supporters to
   march to the Capitol to fight for him in confronting lawmakers as they
   debated whether to certify the Electoral College vote showing he had
   lost reelection to President Joe Biden. Biden was inaugurated last week
   as the country's 46th president.

   Rubio, a Florida lawmaker, told the "Fox News Sunday" show that Trump
   "bears responsibility for some of what happened." But Rubio said he
   opposes the Senate trial after the House of Representatives impeached
   Trump.

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