WASHINGTON — On Friday, President Donald Trump responded to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) for voting to ‘convict’ in the U.S. Senate impeachment trial.
“I was very surprised & disappointed that Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia voted against me on the Democrat’s totally partisan Impeachment Hoax,” President Trump expressed. “No President has done more for the great people of West Virginia than me (Pensions), and that will always continue. Every Republican Senator except Romney, many highly religious people, all very smart, voted against the Impeachment Hoax. Sen. Capito was all in (a great person). I was told by many that Manchin was just a puppet for Schumer & Pelosi. That’s all he is!”
On Wednesday, Manchin justified his impeachment vote, expressing that the President should not have “unlimited power.”
“In establishing our new republic, the Framers of the Constitution risked everything to rebel against imperial rule and instead form a democratic government of checks and balances in which no one branch would have unlimited power,” Manchin stated. “I must vote yes on the articles of impeachment.”
Manchin joined all 47 democrats in the Senate, voting for impeachment.