Jay Sekulow: 'This case is really not about presidential wrongdoing. This entire impeachment process is about the House managers' insistence that they are able to read everybody's thoughts, they can read everybody's intention.'
Trump's lawyers expected to argue the charges are not impeachable, target the BidensAll eyes are on President Donald Trump's legal team Saturday as they take the Senate floor to argue against the case made by the HouseThe president’s lawyers will also have 24 hours over three days to persuade senators that the articles of impeachment charged -- abuse of power and obstruction of Congress -- do not amount to impeachable offenses.
Sekulow said his team plans to save the bulk of their defense for their second day of arguments on Monday. He's expected to be accompanied by Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel on Saturday in an abbreviated session of possibly just three hours.Sekulow's comment came on the heels of a tweet by Trump equating Saturdays to “Death Valley in T.V.”, signaling that he doesn't want his lawyers to deliver the case on Saturday when fewer people might be watching.11:02 a.m.
"As if an article of impeachment could be based upon a meeting not taking place in the White House, but taking place someplace else like the United Nations General Assembly where it, in fact, did take place," he says."As everyone knows by now, President Trump asked President Zelenskiy to do 'us' a favor," Purpura says.
Purpura argues there was"no quid pro quo on the call" because Ukrainians weren't aware of the paused security assistance until Politico reported on it in August. Purpura argues that none of the witnesses called to testify in the House inquiry could say definitively whether the withheld security aid was tied to investigations into the Bidens.Another member of the president's legal team, Mike Purpura, opens his presentation with a video from November of lead House impeachment manager Adam Schiff in which he reads a parody version of the July 25 phone call transcript, comparing it to an organized crime"shakedown.
In this screengrab, Deputy White House Counsel Mike Purpura speaks in the Senate Chamber at the U.S. Capitol during President Trump's impeachment trial on Jan. 25, 2020 in Washington."Once you sweep away all of the bluster and innuendo, the selective leaks, the closed-door examinations of the Democrats' hand-picked witnesses, the staged public hearings, what we're left with are six key facts that have not and will not change," Purpura says.
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