Impeached US President Donald Trump now faces a bitter fight to survive. He has chosen to adopt a brutal and uncompromising defence strategy.
There isn’t really a conventional playbook for dealing with impeachment. It has barely ever happened before – Bill Clinton was impeached in the late 1990s, and the only president to suffer that fate before him was Andrew Johnson all the way back in the 1800s.
“This matter is between me, the two people I love most – my wife and our daughter – and our god. I must put it right, and I am prepared to do whatever it takes to do so. Nothing is more important to me personally,” he said in an address from the White House. “First and most important, my family. Also my friends, my staff, my Cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family, and the American people.”
But his route to acquittal looks to be quite different. Where Mr Clinton eventually brought himself to admit to the lie and apologise, Mr Trump has chosen all-out counter-attack.The President still insists the catalyst for his impeachment – his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky – was “perfect” and he did nothing wrong.“We did nothing wrong and we have tremendous support in the Republican Party, like we’ve never had before,” he told today’s rally.
Back in Congress, Republican politician Barry Loudermilk raised a few eyebrows by comparing Mr Trump’s predicament to that of Jesus when he was tried and crucified in the Bible.
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