Trump's legal team has denied impeachment charges in its first official response to two articles of impeachment, choosing not to deny the core allegations of Democrats
President Donald Trump's legal defence team forcefully denied on Saturday that he abused his power by pressuring a foreign government to investigate his political rivals, calling the two impeachment charges against him a "brazen and unlawful" attempt to hurt his chances of reelection.
Donald Trump's defence ahead of the Senate impeachment trial does not seek to deny he withheld funds from Ukraine or asked the country's president to investigate his political rival.The president's lawyers did not deny any of the core facts underlying Democrats' charges, conceding what ample evidence has shown, that he withheld $391 million in aid from Ukraine and asked the country's president to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
"President Trump's conduct is the framers' worst nightmare," the managers wrote, framing their argument in constitutional terms.Credit:The legal back-and-forth on Saturday offered a preview of the strategies both sides will employ starting in the coming week, when the Senate opens oral arguments in only the third impeachment trial of a president in the nation's history.
The filing from the House Democrats repeated many of the same arguments they laid out last autumn in a report on the findings of their impeachment inquiry. But the managers' brief provided a glimpse of their strategy for the high-stakes legal and political fight ahead.
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