“[Impeachment] is not a game of leaks and unsourced manuscripts,” Trump’s defense team said, making an appeal to senators to not consider a forthcoming book that claims Trump explicitly linked military aid to Ukraine with investigating his political rivals
President Donald Trump’s legal defender Alan Dershowitz hit back at Sen. Elizabeth Warren after the Massachusetts Democrat criticized his trial argument as “contrary to both law & fact” on Twitter.
During Dershowitz’s remarks Monday Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse had a Senate page pass a note to Warren. Asked afterward about the note, Whitehouse said sarcastically, “I was just remarking about how proud a day it was for Harvard Law School.”–Former White House chief of staff John Kelly says that if media accounts of former national security adviser John Bolton’s forthcoming book are accurate, then he trusts the explosive claims made by his former colleague tying Trump to the Ukraine scandal.
Arguing the Senate impeachment trial is a judicial proceeding could strengthen Democrats hand in seeking Mueller’s material. A senior DOJ official called the House letter “bewildering” and a “destruction of the barrier between the courts and the political process that [Supreme Court Associate] Justice [David] Souter long ago recognized would seriously threaten the independence of our apolitical judiciary."
Schumer also panned any talk of bringing in Hunter Biden, Vice President Joe Biden’s son, as a witness in the impeachment trial. Republicans have floated the idea of a witness deal, whereby Democrats could subpoena former Trump national security adviser Bolton and Republicans could bring in Hunter Biden. The president’s defense has raised questions about his role on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma while his father was vice president. There’s no evidence of any wrongdoing by Joe Biden.
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