Liberal activist group Stand for America is organizing anti-Trump protests – "Reject the Cover-Up" – across the country as the Senate impeachment trial vote is taken in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
"Americans will mobilize across the country to protest Senate Republicans voting to 'acquit' Donald Trump after they blocked key witnesses with incriminating evidence from testifying," the group's press release read Monday. "Protesters will send a clear message to Trump and to Republican lawmakers who orchestrated his sham impeachment trial: Any 'acquittal' made after blocking key evidence is not an exoneration — it's a cover-up."
The protests will take place at 160 events nationwide at 5:30 p.m. ET, the group announced.
"Senate Republicans have thrown all democratic norms and decades of precedent out of the window by preventing witnesses from testifying before the Senate," Stand Up America Founder and President Sean Eldridge wrote in a statement.
"We're mobilizing thousands of protesters across the country to make it clear that voters are watching, and we'll remember the lawmakers who chose cowardice over patriotism," he added.
The Senate has planned a 4 p.m. ET vote on whether to pass the House Democrats' two articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, after voting down more witnesses 51-49 and rejecting the addition of new documents 53-47 on Friday.
"Americans deserved a fair trial and the truth from those they elected to serve them, but the Senate Republican majority ignored the will of the people with its cowardly attempt to sweep Donald Trump's shameful and illegal acts under the rug," Common Cause President Karen Hobert Flynn wrote in a statement. "On Wednesday night, the people will be heard in protests across the nation.
"Seventy five percent of Americans wanted to hear from witnesses in the impeachment trial, but Mitch McConnell refused to call even a single witness. We the people do not accept this disgraceful attempt to cover up Donald Trump's abuse of the powers of the presidency and we will make our voices heard in protests Wednesday and on Election Day."
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