The trial is far from over. Trump's legal defense team will layout a brief preview of their case Saturday and pick back up on Monday. Later next week, senators will have a question-and-answer period and a fierce debate over whether to subpoena witnesses is expected.
to further their case for why his act of withholding foreign aid while pushing for political probes is impeachable conduct.
The impeachment managers focused on re-hashing their argument that Trump is a national security threat who tried to subvert an impending election and has wrongfully rejected Congress' constitutional powers in an unprecedented fashion. "We saw that protester yell something bad about [Senate Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer," Sen. Rick Scott said, referencing aas he screamed insults about the New York Democrat."I'm thinking about possibly doing the same thing so the sergeant-at-arms will take me out also because this is ridiculous. We've heard the same thing three days in a row."
"Seriously? If your argument is, 'Oh, I don't have to act to defend my country because someone talked too long,' you're not—Sorry," Sen. Chris Coons toldTrump's legal team launches defense Starting Monday, Trump's defense will then mount a"strong rebuttal" to the impeachment managers and"present a robust case on both the facts and the law" to show the American people that the"president didn't do anything wrong," according to a source on the president's legal team. The source spoke to reporters on a conference call Friday on the condition of anonymity.
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