President Trump’s legal team argues he did “absolutely nothing wrong” in legal brief outlining his defense ahead of Senate impeachment trial.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump did"absolutely nothing wrong," is the victim of a partisan plot to take him down and should be swiftly acquitted in a Senate trial,, prepared for submission to the Senate a day before the president's impeachment trial is set to begin in earnest, counters House Democrats' argument that Trump abused the power of his office for personal gain by working to pressure Ukraine to announce politically advantageous investigations and then, once...
Those two articles of impeachment, adopted by the House in December, set a dangerous precedent, Trump's lawyers said in the memo released publicly by the White House Monday. They argued that House Democrats were intent during their impeachment inquiry, which lasted from last September until mid-December, “to corrupt the extraordinary power of impeachment for use as a political tool to overturn the result of the 2016 election and to interfere in the 2020 election.”Sign Up
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