President Donald Trump's legal team asserts he did absolutely nothing wrong, calling the impeachment case against him flimsy and a dangerous perversion of the Constitution.
President Donald Trump's legal team asserted Monday that he did"absolutely nothing wrong," calling the impeachment case against him flimsy and a"dangerous perversion of the Constitution".Mr Trump's lawyers said abuse of power and obstruction of Congress don't amount to impeachment offenses
The 110-page brief offered a detailed glimpse of the lines of defence against Democratic efforts to convict the presidentbrief from Mr Trump's lawyers , filed ahead of arguments expected later this week in the Senate impeachment trial, offered the most detailed glimpse of the lines of defence they intend to use against Democratic efforts to convict the president and oust him from office over his dealings with Ukraine.
It is meant as a counter to a brief filed two days ago by House Democrats that summarized weeks of testimony from more than a dozen witnesses in laying out the impeachment case. The 110-page filing from the White House shifted the tone toward a more legal response but still hinged on Mr Trump's assertion he did nothing wrong and did not commit a crime — even though impeachment does not depend on a material violation of law but rather on the more vague definition of"other high crimes and misdemeanors" as established in the Constitution.
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