President Donald Trump turned the Senate floor into an alternate-reality impeachment of his political rivals: Joe Biden and Barack Obama
President Donald Trump turned the Senate floor Monday into an alternate-reality impeachment of his political rivals: Joe Biden and Barack Obama.impeachment behind closed doors — a process now defined by whether they’ll agree to allow new witnesses to testify — his lawyers shed any pretense of persuading a band of centrist Republicans to side with the president and instead acted out a virtual prosecution of Trump’s top political nemeses.
at Democrats that seemed meant to fulfill Trump’s promise to make his critics pay during the Senate trial. Trump's team also took direct aim at Democrats' heavy reliance on the role of Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani in their case against the president. Democrats charged thataided Trump's pressure campaign in Ukraine by ginning up smears against an anti-corruption U.S. ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch, and prompting Trump to remove her.
Former Harvard law professor and noted criminal defense attorney Alan Dershowitz, another member of the president’s legal team, mentioned Bolton by name late Monday night as he was wrapping up his presentation — but it was the only direct reference to the former national security adviser all day. Trump attorney Patrick Philbin made the most concerted case against witnesses, but only made passing references without mentioning Bolton by name.
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