Monitoring Desk
WASHINGTON: Donald
Trump’s lawyers prepared to deliver the US president’s first full-throated
defense on Saturday in the Senate’s historic impeachment trial, after
Democratic prosecutors spent three days making their case for the Tump’s removal
from office.
Capping 24 total hours
of arguments, Democrats told the 100 senators that Trump abused the power of
the presidency in pressuring Ukraine to launch investigations that would help
him politically, and then sought to block efforts by Congress to investigate.
Democrats said they had
met that burden of proof, as lead House impeachment manager Adam Schiff warned
that Trump would remain an “imminent threat” to American democracy if
he stays in power.
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Source:: The Frontier Post
