WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) – U.S. President, Donald Trump’s lawyers, argued that Trump had done nothing wrong, urging the Senate to reject the impeachment articles, approved by Democratic-led House of Representatives last month.
“The Senate should speedily reject these deficient articles of impeachment and acquit the president,” Trump’s legal team said, in the president’s first comprehensive defence, on Monday.
“The Articles of Impeachment now before the Senate are an affront to the Constitution and to our democratic institutions. The Articles themselves – and the rigged process that brought them here – are a brazenly political act by House Democrats that must be rejected,” Trump’s lawyers wrote.
“All of this is a dangerous perversion of the Constitution that the Senate should swiftly and roundly condemn,” the legal brief stated.
On Saturday, House Democrats unveiled a 111-page outline of their legal case, heading into the Trump impeachment trial, in the Republican-majority Senate, underlying the central assertion that the president abused his office, obstructed Congress and should be removed.
The trial in the Senate is set to begin on Tuesday (today) with U.S. Chief Justice, John Roberts, presiding.– NNN-AGENCIES
