US President Donald Trump's lawyers have rejected House impeachment charges, slamming allegations he abused his power and obstructed Congress.
January 19, 2020
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 misdemeanours" as established in the Constitution.
It asserts that the impeachment inquiry centred on Mr Trump's request that Ukraine's president open an investigation into Democratic rival Joe Biden was never about finding the truth."Instead, House Democrats were determined from the outset to find some way - any way - 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," Trump's legal team wrote.
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