The 
impeachment 
trial 
of President Donald Trump 
has generated much debate 
across the political spectrum. 
The Daily spoke with several 
conservative 
students 
about their viewpoints on 
impeachment. 
On Jan. 15, 2019, the House 
of Representatives filed two 
impeachment articles against 
Trump, 
accusing 
him 
of 
abusing his power as president 
and obstructing Congress. In 
the following two weeks, U.S. 
senators filled the chamber to 
conduct an impeachment trial 
against 
Trump, 
ultimately 
voting to acquit the president 
of 
all 
charges. 
The 
vote 
was along party lines, with 
the exception of Sen. Mitt 
Romney, R-Utah, who voted 
that the president should be 
charged with one of the two 
counts. 
The filing of the two articles 
came after a whistleblower 
in the White House filed a 
complaint on Aug. 12 to the 
Senate and House Intelligence 
Committees, 
claiming 
the 
president used his position 
to get a foreign country to 
meddle 
in 
the 
2020 
U.S. 
presidential election. In a 
phone call, Trump allegedly 
asked the president of Ukraine 
to 
investigate 
disproven 
corruption allegations against 
Democratic 
presidential 
candidate Joe Biden and his 
son, Hunter Biden. 
Austin McIntosh, Michigan 
campus 
correspondent 
for 
Campus 
Reform 
and 
LSA 

senior, said the president did 
no wrongdoing and therefore 
should 
not 
have 
been 
impeached at all. 
“When 
I 
read 
the 
transcript, I didn’t see any 
(wrongdoings),” 
McIntosh 
said. “I would say (Trump) 
didn’t (commit any crimes). 
(Trump) didn’t even begin 
to ask about (looking into 
Biden), what he did tell him 
about was ‘Look, we found 
out that there seems to be 
some corruption going on. It’s 
your administrators or your 
advisers, and I think you need 
to find the root of that.’ I don’t 
think Donald Trump saying 
‘Hey, there’s corruption in 
your government, figure it 
out,’ I don’t think that’s so bad 
or anything.’”
Nicholas Schuler, freshman 
chair of College Republicans 
and 
LSA 
freshman, 
said 
though Trump did have a 
phone call with the Ukrainian 
president, he believes there 
was nothing said that would 
be worthy of impeachment. 
This is a view supported by 
many within the Republican 
party. Though one in three 
Republicans 
believe 
that 
Trump 
may 
have 
done 
something wrong, 86 percent 
believe he was not deserving 
of removal from office. 
“So we know that he had a 
phone call with the Ukrainian 
president, and we also know 
that aid was later cut to 
Ukraine,” Schuler said. “I 
think anything in between 
that we don’t know. There was 
no explicit wrongdoing by the 
president and certainly not 
something impeachable.”
Lincoln Ballew, president 

of 
Young 
Americans 
for 
Freedom and LSA junior, said 
she believes the impeachment 
trial isn’t a pressing issue for 
many Americans.
“I don’t think very many 
people care about it or pay 
attention because it’s really 
complicated and there hasn’t 
been very much transparency 
with the issue,” Ballew said. 
“It’s been really hard for the 
public to follow what’s been 
going on, so I don’t think many 
people care.”
Voters 
in 
Michigan 
are 
divided over their thoughts 
on impeachment. Michigan 
is a key battleground state in 
the 2020 election, and a state 
Trump won in 2016. Trump 
has made two campaign visits 
to the state since January 
2019, and Vice President Mike 
Pence is scheduled to make an 
appearance in Troy at the end 
of the month.
Another common argument 
voiced by those who spoke 
with The Daily was that the 
process 
of 
impeachment 
should be fundamentally non-
partisan and should remain 
based on the facts. McIntosh 
also 
said 
senators 
should 
use their voting power to 
reflect how their constituents 
feel about impeaching the 
president. 
“There’s 
congressmen 
or 
senators who feel like they 
shouldn’t be afraid of the 
backlash from the right — 
you’re supposed to represent 
your people,” McIntosh said. 
“You should represent your 
base, and if a certain base feels 
a certain way on the president, 
that’s how you should vote.” 
Since 
the 
conclusion 
of 

impeachment, 
many 
have 
speculated 
about 
how 
the 
impeachment 
trial 
will 
affect the 2020 election. LSA 
junior Caroline Martin, vice 
president 
of 
outreach 
for 
WeListen, said she believes 
the impeachment trial did not 
have much effect on the 2020 
election. 
“I think the impeachment 
proceedings 
are 
timed 
very well,” Martin said. “I 
don’t 
necessarily 
know 
if 
they would have impacted 
my personal view of this 
particular president because 
your opinions of him before, 
whether or not you agree with 
him or disagree with him, 
wouldn’t change as much after 
hearing some of the evidence; 
you would be more inclined to 
stick with what you already 
believe.”
Regina 
Egan, 
communications director of 
College Democrats, also wrote 
in a message to The Daily that 
the organization believes the 
impeachment 
trial 
shows 
voters in the 2020 election 
that 
the 
Democrats 
are 
steadfast in their commitment 
to the truth. 
“In fact, (the impeachment 
trial) shows that Democrats 
value the integrity of a trial 
and are willing to deliver 
on 
their 
fundamental 
responsibility to the American 
people, the majority of whom 
wanted 
witnesses,” 
Egan 
wrote. 
“What 
voters 
will 
remember in November is the 
Democrats’ pursuit of truth 
and a fair trial.”
Daily staff reporter Julia 
Forrest can be reached at 
juforrest@umich.edu.

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