President Donald Trump’s defense team makes first day of opening arguments Trump’s lawyers argue the charges are not impeachable, raise the Bidens Trump has called the Saturday trial session “Death Valley in T.V.” President Donald Trump’s legal team Saturday took to the Senate floor to argue against the case made by the House impeachment managers over the past three days. The president's lawyers also will have 24 hours over three days to persuade senators that the articles of impeachment charged — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — do not amount to impeachable offenses. As Jay Sekulow, the president’s personal attorney, predicted, they briefly brought up former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, after Democrats raised them repeatedly in an effort to preempt the expected White House defense. They have argued that the president was justified in seeking an investigation into the Bidens by Ukraine because of a history of corruption involving the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Sekulow has said his team plans to save the bulk of their defense for their second day of arguments on Monday. He was accompanied by White House counsel Pat Cipollone and other White House lawyers on Saturday in an abbreviated… Read full this story
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