Schumer Defends Change in Tune From Clinton Impeachment Trial

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) holds a press conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on December 16, 2019. Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) defended the shift in rhetoric from the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton to the present day after critics hammered him over his past comments.

Schumer, 69, called for four witnesses to testify if an impeachment trial for President Donald Trump is held. But 20 years ago, he dismissed calls for witnesses, saying such calls were “political theater.”