BREAKING: President Trump launched his first formal attack on the House’s effort to remove him from office on Saturday calling the Democrats’ impeachment case against him fatally flawed and “constitutionally invalid”
In its first filing, the Trump legal team hammered what it calls “procedural irregularities” in the House’s impeachment process and the decision by Democrats not to accuse the president of committing a statutory crime.
The president’s lawyers won’t be first to make arguments in the Senate trial. Seven House Democratic impeachment managers are expected to begin making their presentation at the start of the week. The Trump plan, however, is also far from final. “We may break it up,” said one of the people close to the legal team. “We don’t know yet.”
The House impeached Trump last month, charging him with abusing his power by pressuring the Ukrainian government to launch investigations into his political rivals, including former Vice President Joe Biden. A second charge alleged that Trump obstructed congressional investigations by ordering a blanket stonewall of the House’s Ukraine probes.
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