Trump rejects impeachment charges in legal, political defence

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump on Monday rejected Democratic-led House of Representatives' impeachment charges as an affront to the US Constitution in a pre-trial brief that was as much a political case against removing him as it was a legal defence.

Trump, only the fourth of 45 American presidents to face the possibility of being ousted by impeachment, is charged with abusing the powers of his office by asking Ukraine to investigate a Democratic political rival, Joe Biden, and obstructing a congressional inquiry into his conduct. "House Democrats settled on two flimsy Articles of Impeachment that allege no crime or violation of law whatsoever - much less"high Crimes and Misdemeanors," as required by the Constitution," it said."They do not remotely approach the constitutional threshold for removing a President from office."

It also accused the House Democrats of conducting a rigged process, said they succeeded in proving only that Trump had done nothing wrong and argued, as the White House has repeatedly, that this was an effort to overturn Trump's 2016 election victory and to prevent his re-election in November. "Put simply, Democrats have no response to the President's record of achievement in restoring prosperity to the American economy, rebuilding America's military, and confronting America's adversaries abroad," it added.

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