Susan Collins flees from reporter when asked if she still believes Trump learned “a very big lesson”

When asked in the Oval Office what “lesson” he had learned from impeachment, Trump said: “Democrats are crooked”

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, dodged questions from a reporter Wednesday who pressed her on whether she still believed her claim that President Donald Trump has learned a “lesson” by being impeached.

Collins, along with several other Republicans, defended her vote to acquit Trump in his Senate impeachment trial by arguing that though his actions were “wrong,” he had learned a “pretty big lesson” from being impeached.

“I believe that the president has learned from this case,” Collins told CBS News. “I believe that he will be much more cautious in the future.” Continue reading.