Trump lawyers respond to articles of impeachment: 'Constitutionally invalid'
By: Marisa Schultz
The whole democrat impeachment of our great President Trump is an illegitimate unconstitutional farce. There is nothing valid about the charges or the way they were reached. Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and Gerold Nadler are incompetents.
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President Trump's legal team on Saturday issued a full-throttled defense to the articles of impeachment , refuting the substance and process of the charges while accusing House Democrats of engaging in a "dangerous attack" on the right of the American people to freely choose their president.
"This is a brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and interfere with the 2020 election now just months away," said a source close to the president's legal team, reading from the expected legal filing.
The legal paperwork is the first formal response to the two articles of impeachment read in the Senate on Thursday for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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Trump's lawyers argued that the articles of impeachment violated the Constitution and are "defective in their entirety" because they were the product of invalid House proceedings that "flagrantly denied the President any due process rights," a source close to Trump's legal team said Saturday in briefing reporters.
At the crux of Trump's defense is that he did nothing wrong in his July 25 phone call with the president of Ukraine when he asked for investigations into Democrats. Trump's lawyers argue that military aid to Ukraine was ultimately released without any announcement of investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
The articles of impeachment "are constitutionally invalid" because they "fail to allege any crime or violation of law whatsoever, let alone, high crimes or misdemeanors," a source close to the legal team said, reflecting the argument in the legal filling.
The response is the first of many expected in the coming days from Trump's growing legal team as they battle to acquit the commander in chief in the Senate impeachment trial.
The House impeachment managers were expected to release their opening trial briefing Saturday evening, and Trump's lawyers will give their response by Monday.
Adding to the Democrats' case is a legal opinion Thursday from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), which found that the Trump administration broke the law by withholding defense aid to Ukraine. But the source close to Trump's legal team rejected the findings and accused the GAO of trying to insert itself into the impeachment "news cycle."
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The third presidential impeachment trial formally began Thursday when Chief Justice John Roberts swore in the senators and each signed an “oath book” to cement their role as impartial jurors.
The trial will kick off in earnest Tuesday when House impeachment managers will prosecute the case and Trump's lawyers will offer a robust defense. The 100 senators took an oath Thursday to become jurors in the trial.
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If I was going to attack the process of impeachment itself, I don't think the due process argument works. Instead, I would be inclined to argue that the House was not acting in "good faith" and their impeachment is therefore invalid. There is tons of evidence for this, of course.
I am certain that if Trump enjoyed wider approval and support, and there had not been talk of impeachment since before he was even elected, this incident with Ukraine would have done little more than raise an eyebrow or two, and might have been in the news for all of a couple days.
It sounds like case dismissed due to lack of evidence or reason!
"This is a brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and interfere with the 2020 election now just months away," said a source close to the president's legal team, reading from the expected legal filing.
Ya, Well put!
Making fun of them, calling them names and overuse of social media are not crimes
Believe me, if there wee real crimes, they would have been so stated in the Articles and Nancy Pelosi would have sent them over to the Senate immediately!
Have you got anything to add to the conversation?
The President's defense team will have the right to make a motion to dismiss. The Senate should vote on it.
it is all show for the lunatic left and nothing more than that.
exposing the bidens and shrinking the lefts voter base in the process? priceless