'I'm exposing your hatred of this president,' Senator Lindsey Graham criticized Democrats for the way they are handling the impeachment process against Trump
WASHINGTON - Democrats accused President Donald Trump at the start of his impeachment trial on Wednesday of a corrupt scheme to pressure Ukraine to help him get re-elected and warned that America’s global prestige would suffer if the U.S. Senate acquits him.
Democrats argue that Trump was trying to find dirt on Biden, a leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, and his son Hunter Biden who had served on the board of a Ukrainian gas company, to help the president win a second term. The case against him is focused on a July 25 telephone call in which he asked Zelenskiy to open a corruption investigation into the Bidens as well as a discredited theory that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 U.S. election.“Nothing could be more dangerous to a democracy than a commander in chief who believed that he could operate with impunity, free from accountability.
Democrats have up to three days to make their case. Trump’s defense team will have three days after that for rebuttal in a trial that could potentially conclude next week.It is the third presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history. The opening days have been dominated by arguments over Democratic requests for more witnesses and records.
“I thought our team did a very good job. But honestly, we have all the material. They don’t have the material,” Trump said.
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