WASHINGTON—The expected acquittal of President Trump in the Senate impeachment trial won’t stop Democrats from continuing to push the case that Mr. Trump should be removed from office, the lead House impeachment manager, Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) said Sunday.
On CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Mr. Schiff said that he hasn’t given up on the Democrats’ case despite the near-certainty that the Republican-led Senate will vote to acquit Mr. Trump Wednesday.
“It’s enormously important that the country understand exactly what this president did,” Mr. Schiff said. He said the Senate should remove Mr. Trump from office “because he is threatening to still cheat in the next election by soliciting foreign interference.”
On Friday, the Senate voted 51-49 to reject Democrat’s demands to call new witnesses in the case, setting the stage for acquittal.
The trial resumes at 11 a.m. EST Monday for four hours of closing arguments. After that, the trial will adjourn again. The vote on the articles of impeachment is set for 4 p.m. Wednesday.
When pressed on what Democrats would do next, Mr. Schiff said he was still focused on the trial.
“I’m not letting the senators off the hook,” Mr. Schiff added. “We’re still going to go into the Senate this week and make the case why this president needs to be removed.”
Asked if Democrats would consider subpoenaing Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton —whose forthcoming book alleges that the president sought investigations in Ukraine into Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden for political purposes—Mr. Schiff declined to answer definitively but said there are several possible options.
“I don’t want to comment at this point on what our plans may or may not be with respect to John Bolton,” Mr. Schiff said. “Whether it’s in testimony before the House or it’s in his book, or it’s in one form or another, the truth will come out.”
In a separate television appearance on Sunday, one of the president’s attorneys in the Senate trial, Alan Dershowitz, argued that there is no need to seek out new information.
“The articles of impeachment did not charge an impeachable offense,” said Mr. Dershowitz, a Harvard Law professor, on “Fox News Sunday.” “So the right answer is to dismiss it and cut it off right there. No amount of witnesses could have changed that conclusion.”
Mr. Dershowitz also reframed one of his arguments last week, about whether Mr. Trump could have believed his re-election was in the national interest.
“If the president did something completely lawful, the fact that part of his motivation may have been to help his election cannot be the quid pro quo,” he said. “I don’t believe that a president can do anything that he thinks is the national interest.”
Write to Alexa Corse at alexa.corse@wsj.com
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