Donald Trump Impeachment Trial: Reporters In Chamber Scrutinize Senators For Signs Of Attention And Distraction

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell sat at his desk, rarely if ever distracted from the case being laid out against Donald Trump by House impeachment managers this week.That was certainly not the case with Sen.

Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who at one point tapped a pencil on his desk, and at another fidgeted his fingers. On Thursday, he left the chamber to go to the cloak room for blocks of time.During the trial, the Senate cameras are fixed on the raised rostrum and whoever is speaking at that moment; the dozen or so reporters in the chamber, however, are fixated on the movements and reactions of the senators themselves.Gathered in the third-floor gallery just above the rostrum, the members of the media covering the trial in person have a