WASHINGTON — House Democrats say in a brief filed ahead of impeachment trial arguments that President Donald Trump “abandoned his oath to faithfully execute the laws and betrayed his public trust.”The brief Saturday came shortly after the White House sent the Senate a fiery response to its impeachment summons, outlining the defenses it expects to use in the upcoming trial.
Trump’s legal team, led by White House counsel Pat Cipollone and Trump personal lawyer Jay Sekulow, is challenging the impeachment on both procedural and constitutional grounds, claiming Trump has been mistreated by House Democrats and that he did nothing wrong. Trump on Friday appointed several nationally known lawyers to the team that will defend him in the proceedings, set to open Tuesday afternoon.
The documents also raised more questions about the surveillance and security of former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch. In them, an unidentified individual with a Belgian country code appears to describe Yovanovitch’s movements. Trump on Friday named Ken Starr, the prosecutor whose investigation two decades ago led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, along with former Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, to his defense team.
A legal brief from the White House laying out the contours of Trump’s defense was due by noon Monday, and White House attorneys and Trump’s outside legal team have been debating just how political the document should be. Dershowitz sought to play down his role in the case in the hours after he was named to the team, saying he would be present for just about an hour to make the constitutional arguments.White House lawyers succeeded in keeping Trump from adding House Republican lawmakers to the defense team, but they also advised him against tapping Dershowitz, according to two people who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal discussions.
🅣🅡🅤🅜🅟 🅘🅢 🅐 🅣🅡🅐🅘🅣🅞🅡.
Democrats party is a joke now, everything they do is just laughable.
Girtherism239 The one person that nobody can disagree with, be hateful towards in the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump, he is Impeached forever is Dr. Fiona Hill, my personal hero!
WOW
Under President Trump's legal team's logic, the right to bear arms would apply to actual arms, not guns. A high crime is a violation of the public trust. No federal crimes existed in 1787. High Crime means violating trust. Read history. Impeached45 TrialsHaveWitnesse
So he abandons his oath and accomplishes: *Lowest unemployment in history *Record breaking stock market *Largest tax break *ISIS Defeated *New China Deal *New NAFTA deal *2 new Supreme Court Judges *Over 140 new judges appointed So let’s rethink that people....
'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,'
Trump Refused to stand before Congress with his hand on the Bible and Testify
House dems abused their power
Meanwhile realDonaldTrump has put up win after win, after win & he’s just going to keep going. That’s what the American people want to see.” 💥RECORD unemployment 💥HUGE tax cuts 💥UNPRECEDENTED trade deals This President doesn't stop working for Americans.
Lies again by AP
Request denied, acquitted.
That is totalBS
Let me guess, Pelosi wants a Democrat to be President in 2020. She would leave it to the American voters but she knows there’s not a Democrat that can beat Trump.
I very much look forward to re-electing TRUMP!! Trump2020Landslide
Democrats are a joke - no laws were broken
According to the Constitution, 'Impeachment' is a legal way to remove a President from office, It's up to the Senate in the form of a 'Trial' to determine if the charges are valid enough to remove the President from office?
The President's response just came out.
Lol
Someone needs to ask SpeakerPelosi why she won't let voters decide in Nov? She and the Democrats have spent 3 years laying out their case for why Trump should be removed and is a danger. Does she not trust the voters judgement? Or is that she wants to make that decision for us?
EZR_news Analyze this: 'Trump abandoned his oath and must be removed from office.'
RemoveTrump realDonaldTrump TrumpisaDangertoAmerica
Yes he did. TrumpIsADangertoAmerica
Trump never should have been allowed into office. He has been dangerously unqualified from day one and continues to show his deficiencies in character and demonstrates acts of moral turpitude on the regular. Another stain on the fabric of the United States.
The leader slimy schiff is a known and proven lair .....this should be pointed out in the presidential statement at the beginning of this demon rat shit show
Sounds like what piglosi has done
Sonuvabitch had his fingers crossed in his pocket when he made that oath
The DEMS make it official on behalf of TRUE Constitution, Country and Freedom loving Americans ... 'ITS NOT OKAY'
Man I cannot wait until the epic meltdown next nov...
Opps they misspelled or used the wrong verb tense... surely they must have meant 'has abandoned' . . . since day one?
He absolutely did and he must be REMOVED immediately!
office ? planet.
The word 'abandoned' suggests that at some point Trump was adhering to his oath. When was that time exactly?
Smart Americans know this is nothing more than a democrat political hit job. Take one look at the democrat candidates for president and you’ll see why.
The oath of office is legally meaningless as there is no one on the other side of that oath contractually bound to legally file a claim of injury when it is breached. Read Lysander Spooner & you'll understand the shit-show.
I watched house hearings; a waste of time. There’s no impeachment here, there’s just politics.
Look in the mirror Schiff, Nadler, Pelosi
'Brief' ah! just like one of trump lawyer who claim he kept his on during a massage at Epstein's place
Law Law Latest News, Law Law Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: Reuters - 🏆 2. / 97 Read more »
Source: ABC - 🏆 471. / 51 Read more »
Source: Newsweek - 🏆 468. / 52 Read more »