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Democrats Hammer Need For Witnesses After Trump Lawyers Begin Defense


Democrats coalesced behind one central argument after President Donald Trump’s lawyers wrapped up their first round of presentations Saturday, saying that the lawyers’ complaints about lack of first-hand knowledge could be easily solved by including witnesses and documents in the proceedings.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) hammered the lawyers’ refrain that were no “eyewitness accounts” of Trump’s wrongdoing, saying that the witnesses and documents Democrats want to be included in the trial would provide that information.

Schumer says Trump’s legal team unintentionally made the case for witnesses and documents in the trial pic.twitter.com/EoyM1vKbpa
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) January 25, 2020
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