WASHINGTON - Democrats worked methodically at U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on Thursday to dismantle his long-standing allegation that Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden acted improperly toward Ukraine while vice president.
They contended that Trump pushed for the probe because he was worried about facing the former vice president in November’s election. Biden is the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. “I just want to thank you keeping an open mind about all of the issues that we are presenting,” Schiff said. “That’s all that we can ask for.”
“They opened the door. They opened the door and it’s now relevant,” Jay Sekulow, a personal lawyer for the president and a member of his defense team, told reporters at the Capitol. “So we will address the appropriate issues as defense lawyers would.”But Sekulow said Trump’s team was not yet focused on whether new witnesses will be called, a matter the Senate will take up after senators have a chance to submit questions to both sides next week.
He doesn't have the skills or temperament to be president. It's simple. No need to be angry. It just isn't his calling.
Ukraine did interfere in the election.
After the Democrat disasters in Syria,Ukraine & Libya probably the wisest decision.
AdamSchiff is full of it, which has been proven countless times, and your company is garbage.
Schitt must be on crack!! The side affects of the drug parties with ed buck are apparent!!
Interesting. Before, any inconvenient truth was called communist ideology, now it’s called Russian propaganda.
How is this relevant to the charges? RepAdamSchiff Congress America
You forgot to mention that Schiff has NO EVIDENCE of that.
You peddled the Russian collusion hoax for 3 fricking years....
thats a lying sack of schiff right there ..bring on guilliani
Schiff has been caught lying for many times. Why did dems choose him
He can testify
What else will Trump do against the advice of USA advisers and at the beck and call of Rudy Guliani?
removeIndictTrumpPence RemoveandIndictBarr!
Russians! 😄
Huh! Isn't that what realDonaldTrump was doing when he asked Ukraine to investigate corruption before he released any more funding? 🤔
It comes as no surprise to the rest of us that it is official policy for democrats to protect their own conflict of interest earnig money overseas and claim foreign interferance if an attempt is made to investigate.
Total and complete utter HS
If this was ok because it was US official policy, then..... this impeachment is a hoax. Why? Because what Trump did was also US official policy, you know, because he is the President. 'Biden was just doing what Obama told him to do. So it was ok!' *blink* *blink*
So, what they are saying is that Obama was corrupt, too?
A ho hum story aaaa so what who cares - it’s just more orange man mania
Corruption concerns? So fire the non corrupt guy? You must be a Democrat.
😂😂😂
Old story democrats blaming Trump for stuff they are actually doing
Not even close. . .
You know, if the demcorats just admitted that they know they are going to lose in November and really, really needed to do this to remove Trump from office to help them, it would have about the same effect as the shameful nonsense they are peddling.
ol'Jerr suffers from oatmeal brain.... between Schiff, Nadler as the runts and Pelosi and Hoyer as the so called leadership.. you've got to be kidding. The DNC young'ins aren't prepared and the seniors are less equipped than any of'em. What a joke! theDNC will crumble 🍅 L
The penguin Nadler should be removed from our recognition and earshot both.
Impeaching a sitting President for doing his Constitutionally Mandated job of investigating corruption involving US foreign aid is Unconstitutional. All who voted to impeach on opinion and partisan hatred should be removed from the house and charged with sedition.
Because Biden took bribes and Trump noticed? Wow... Oh because he has executive privileged... I see. Good grief. No one is even watching this, or cares, there is zero chance Trump is removed. zero. Trump did nothing wrong.
His opinion is not based in fact.
HouseDemocrats Hispanics4Trump
Nadler’s belt line is a crime
RepJerryNadler committed crimes against our intelligence.
OMG...He and Schiff keep talking and talking and talking! And then...they talk some more!!!! Great god almighty!!
Well, they are presenting to 3 year olds after all.
It's all bullshit... waste of time and money!!
Look at Jonie Ernst laughing make her pay
Also crimes against humanity, RemoveandIndictTrump
Anyone who has ever raised children understands that the way to get them to learn something new is through repetition. The Republicans, who have largely ignored, avoided or otherwise denied the degree of realDonaldTrump’s criminality, are now being “schooled” and don’t like it!
GOP / Republican senators are too lazy, childish, and irresponsible to sit in a chair and seriously fulfill their oaths to the nation. They should be made to get real jobs (THEIR performance as senators doesn't qualify) & learn something about the lives they should be serving.
That’s all you got? I’m sure we’ll hear “perfect phone call” and “no quid pro quo” non-stop from the criminal’s lawyers.
Rep. Nadler is absolutely correct.
It’s their job to listen!They get paid handsomely and have deluxe benefits!They can just sit their privileged little butts down,quit fiddling,quit reading, stop doing crossword puzzles,stop leaving to talk to FOX News and listen!Just listen! Or resign and let someone else!
Crazy man of Dems 😂😂😂😂😂
Maybe Nadler should call the constitution as a witness.🙄
Which crime is that?
Aka a group of senators went in front of the cameras to beg president trump not to mean tweet them. Don’t worry, the defence side will only last a day and will be even more repetitive because it’s really really hard to defend the indefensible.
GOP members of the House/Senate have literally no right to say that they didn't know, that they haven't heard the evidence that democrats presented. They have a choice - continue to defend the Impeached President from being removed or face removal themselves at ballot box.
Blackburn isn't listening. She was on Fox yesterday during a break. She tweeted today about Col Vindman. I don't think if they heard it 20 times they would actually HEAR it.
'Should be removed from office'
Hey SenatorTimScott RightMatters TruthMatters and if you don’t get that you need to get out.
Surprised they noticed.
GOP take offense at being called complicit in Trump's impeachable offenses, with Susan Collins sending a childishly dumb letter to Justice Roberts. Too bad if they don't like repetition. They have no defense for their cult leader.
Maybe they need to hear it 3 times for it to sink in. 15 of them left the trial the first day. So they didn't even hear it once.
Glad he's listening, but like all the rest of his clan, tuning out the antics of Don surely doesn't make them better Senators... just lemmings.
Repeating the message to ensure Republican Senators get the facts and introduce the facts to a television audience joining in at different points in the day.
Trumps whole game is repetition. Do THEY REALLY THINK WE ARE THIS STUPID. Wake up America. Time to get out of bed and put your pants on. PS. Barrasso is a sock puppet. People in his own state say he has no ability to think for himself.
Well if you run a trial without taking in new evidence or ANY witness ...it will be the lawyers and the prosecutor that repeat their statements...because you BLOCKED any standard of a fair trial. Bootlickers
Yet you refused to let in new information Are daft or ?
Blocked blocked blocked 🙄 talk about that?!
You should finish ur headline next time. “Because they won’t allow any new evidence, witnesses, or documents” Irony & hypocrisy doesn’t even begin to cover this corrupt gop
More like the House Dems are making up new stuff everyday. Their arguments are different each day and they act like there are 24 articles of impeachment and the number grows by the hour.
And soon we can all forget it. This sham is almost over.
Because it's the truth, not lies.
How about let in witnesses tell their side? No trial without witnesses
Because the GOP senators never watched congressional hearings! Dems now have to repeat the facts slowly and repetitively to the Senate.
Reuters..what r u doing? repeating repulicans lines over and over .. IRONIC
what it must feel like to be Castrated
Yup it’s getting old ! Getting paid to do what ?
Well if Rep Senators just let the American voters see the evidence ... Instead they voted against transparency.
RT : ‘Rinse it, recycle it, repeat it’: Republican senators say House Democrats are repeating arguments during the Senate ImpeachmentTrial
That means that have no excuse not to know the material. If they recognize the repetition, that means they can't say they didn't hear it.
you mean like their orange god
Yeah, because some of you are walking around and not paying attention! Do your jobs
Doesn’t matter what they used those people still lied under oath!!! And so did schiff once again!! Can he ever speak the truth with that soup cooler?
MAGA2020Landslide
All that they could show was their hatred on Trump.
And.... nobody cares. Nobody is watching... no body cares. Trump didn't do anything wrong and all the spin in the world can't change that. We can read the transcripts.
Nah man corruption of bidens pelosi. Son and Kerry has to be explained
Whoever does not believe that corruption does not strike the pillars of the USA is a mistake. Look at the Trump court, the president of the Supreme Court there, and the president and members of the US Senate from the Republican Party to find out where corruption is.
The government hid the Bad Brown Acid confiscated at the Woodstock Festival, now we know where. It was stashed on Capitol Hill and the Senate Democrats found it! Chuck Schumer tells an invisible person to get off his chair yesterday, zoomed in.
24 hours of saying mean things about a man they hate but do not know.
VERIFY THIS and let it sink in 🔦 The following 3 second video clip says it all with respect to subpoenas needed to verify crucial and critical claims or assertions. In this clip, DESPITE VALID SUBPOENAS, TRUMP SAYS “WE HAVE ALL THE MATERIALS. THEY DON’T HAVE THE MATERIALS.” ⤵️
Reuters should really try and have more balanced reporting. What is the point of a news agency being a Democrat communication outlet
Guilty of beating Hillary.
Except she cut the timeline short as Rudy began in late 2017 and all thru 2018, long before Biden was even considering being a candidate. Some believe it's the only reason he decided to run, trying to stop any investigation into his and Dems corruption in Ukraine.
Sickening politician
Adam Schiff will go down in the annals of history as a hero
In God I trust everyone else bring data
You missed where RepAdamSchiff & RepJerryNadler condemned the 2020 election and said Citizens could not be trusted with the VOTE!!! ?
If Trump was really concerned about corruption but felt he couldn't trust any of the US government's intelligence agencies to conduct the investigation, why did he go with rejects from a Cohen brothers movie? Were the Goonies unavailable?
Where is Rudy G? In Ukraine again?
That lady needs to wash.
Wonderful job!! So impressive. Republicans are on trial as much Trump. The world is watching them rationalize no DocumentsAndWitnesses in an obstruction case.
Through his conduit money laundering accomplice hunter Biden his son. This is chess people. Trump is going to reveal rampant corruption via dems children’s sitting on boards. Chelsea u next girl. No accomplishment kids on boardS companies needing USA govt $
How about an investigation into that allegation because this keeps coming around. I heard this allegation from Ukrainian friends years ago. It’s not a secret there like it is here. Follow the $$$.
We all seen Biden admit he bribed Ukraine for a Billion Dollars by his own admission. He has diarrhea of the mouth and will die in prison. No pardons!
Well he is on video actually bragging about it so 🤷♂️
And why are they spending so much time defending Biden?
It’s not a “long-standing allegation” but one cooked up to create controversy (remember the emails? Benghazi?)
Biden is on tape!
Trump te dicen tus 80 verdades
realDonaldTrump & GOP are burning down the house, whitehouse ImpeachmentTrial
What a horrible headline Reuters. This is about Trump's impeachment and nothing to do with fox news hogwash conspiracy theories. Do better.
Who is on trial!? Lol, this is insane! What bloody crime did Trump commit? The entire Russian story was found to be BS and now this clown show?
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