WASHINGTON - Donald Trump's defenders and supporters skirmished over the airwaves on Sunday a day after the US president's legal team dismissed his impeachment trial as unconstitutional and dangerous.
"The vote was to impeach on abuse of power, which is not within the constitutional criteria for impeachment, and obstruction of justice," Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor emeritus, said on ABC. 'ARRANT NONSENSE' "That's an argument you have to make if the facts are so dead set against you," he said on ABC.The House impeached Trump on charges that he abused his office to pressure Ukraine to dig up dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden by withholding military aid and dangling a White House meeting with the Ukrainian president. He was also charged with obstructing Congress.
The president has said he would like the Senate to almost immediately dismiss the charges, but Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a Trump confidant, told Fox News:"That is not going to happen. We don't have the votes for that." Republicans say the House erred by not taking the time during its hearings to secure the testimony of key witnesses like Bolton before sending articles of impeachment to the Senate.
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