On most days, Rep. Salud Carbajal is the most mild-spoken of politicians — cautious, good-natured, and (his hands-down favorite word) bipartisan to a fault.
Last week, however, as majority Republicans yawned and fidget spun through the start of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, Carbajal uncharacteristically let his rhetorical freak flag fly.
“It seems more like a cover-up than the trial we expect for the Senate to conduct,” said Santa Barbara’s 55-year-old congressmember in an interview.