Klobuchar on Trump’s ask to Ukraine: ‘This is the global version of Watergate’

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) called the controversy at the center of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump “the global version of Watergate.”

The presidential candidate told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week” that she has seen enough evidence in the inquiry so far to take the president to trial in the Senate. 

“I made this very clear that I think this is an impeachable offense,” she said.

“I made this very clear that this is an impeachable offense,” Amy Klobuchar tells @GStephanopoulos when asked if she has seen enough evidence for it to go to trial.

“You can’t just close your eyes to this … this is the global version of Watergate.” https://t.co/P6iz1j1VA4 pic.twitter.com/rAkf9N89X2

— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) November 24, 2019

The Minnesota senator compared Trump’s ask to the Ukrainian president for information on political opponent former Vice President Joe Biden to Nixon’s actions during the Watergate controversy, saying people “can’t just close your eyes to this.”

“When you think back to Watergate, they didn’t close their eyes when a paranoid president, who was up for election and looking for dirt on a political opponent, got involved with having people break into an office and steal information on their opponents from a filing cabinet,” Klobuchar told Stephanopoulos. 

“Well, this is the global version of Watergate where a president is trying to get dirt on a political opponent from a world leader,” she added.

Klobuchar’s interview came after a second week of public impeachment testimony, during which several former and current Trump officials testified in front of House investigators. 

The House launched the impeachment inquiry into the president after a whistleblower reported Trump asked the Ukrainian president to look into Biden, days after withholding military aid to the country.