Democrats don't have overwhelming evidence in President Donald Trump's impeachment case, former independent counsel Ken Starr said Wednesday.
"The evidence, whether it's circumstantial or direct — and I think it's virtually entirely circumstantial — has to be overwhelming not just beyond a reasonable doubt ... overwhelming to the American people who are not sitting in a courtroom and listening to every witness testify and drawing interferences and so forth," he said during an appearance on Fox News' "America's Newsroom."
The House is voting on two articles of impeachment against Trump, including obstruction of justice and abuse of power.
Starr, who led the Bill Clinton impeachment investigation in the 1990s, said Trump didn't do anything "so profoundly wrong that the republic" was in some sort of danger.
"And, that is what the Democrats have been doing. They've been taking what I view as a very thin evidentiary record and transmogrifying it and creating a national security risk as well as an intervention — in invited intervention — into U.S. policies," he said. "And, I think both those themes are really quite farfetched."
"It really is not a strong case," he noted, later saying that "this will go down as the most partisan impeachment in the history of the republic."
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