Posted on 01/18/2020 2:59:24 PM PST by jazusamo
President Trump's legal team on Saturday issued a full-throttled defense to the articles of impeachment, refuting the substance and process of the charges while accusing House Democrats of engaging in a "dangerous attack" on the right of the American people to freely choose their president.
"This is a brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and interfere with the 2020 election now just months away," said a source close to the president's legal team, reading from the expected legal filing.
The legal paperwork is the first formal response to the two articles of impeachment read in the Senate on Thursday for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
Trump's lawyers argued that the articles of impeachment violated the Constitution and are "defective in their entirety" because they were the product of invalid House proceedings that "flagrantly denied the President any due process rights," a source close to Trump's legal team said Saturday in briefing reporters.
At the crux of Trump's defense is that he did nothing wrong in his July 25 phone call with the president of Ukraine when he asked for investigations into Democrats. Trump's lawyers argue that military aid to Ukraine was ultimately released without any announcement of investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
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Lame and dumb argument by POTUS team
Agreed...
Lame and dumb.
Love the song.
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Whoops. My bad. Johnson is obviously who I meant.
The Aticles are unconstitutional.
Neither one of them fit the guidelines for impeachable offenses as described in the Constitution.
I doubt any GOP will defect, though. But they could very well do screwy things for attention. They wont remove Trump but they know the Brown Shirt Media is hovering like vultures just waiting for a Mitt or Collins to give them a great sound bite.
A Texan who passes every vacation in Connecticut should have been a clue.
No. He asked the Ukrainian president to cooperate with the US Attorney General to investigate an ongoing criminal investigation into the 2016 election.
1. Never expose your offense until the last moment
2. Nancy did harm to the Democratic Party with her attempt to satisfied the base. The Libs whipped up their base to a removal, how did she think it was not going to start? President Trump has used the Libs actions against them beautifully, most best political maneuver ever......The Presidents base is fired up going into the election. This has either been the stupidest or most desperate move by Nancy ever! Of course she has to protect the corruption and Deep State, but I repeat myself.
Help....something has been bothering me since it occurred. Can anyone advise if shiftless’ fictional account of Our President’s call to Ukraine made on the floor of congress remains in the congressional record?? My concern is 50 years from now, if the left hasn’t completely revised history, anyone researching the congressional record will view a completely false accounting of the call. I hope it has been stricken from the record, but I haven’t been able to find evidence of its removal.
Thanks in advance.
This is so they can always trout that they impeached Trump but the RINOs would not approve it. That is what it is about. Getting even for Slick Willie “the Wh&*# Hopper” Klinton.
Never murder a man who is committing suicide.
Wrong. The “offenses” are well described in the Constitution, for which a President may be impeached, tried and removed from office. Just cause the “dems want to, and disagree on policy or person” is not sufficient. Dismissed AND Acquitted of improper charges.
Does anyone think that even makes sense?
Mark Levin is quite clear on the topic. And he has the ear of the team. McConnell is a major, powerful factor in the conduct of any “proceeding”. And there is the “ace in the hole” against Roberts even being seated, and requiring his recusal— the continuing blackmail of Roberts by obmauamao’s communist minions against the Brazilian adoption of his two Irish children— and the supposed “illegality” of that.
obamaumao is still blackmailing Roberts, as are the democrats. Reason enough for recusal, and also— to stop the proceedings, period. No reason to proceed under these conditions.
The Senate should order a directed verdict and be done with it.
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