Impeachment Trial: Trump’s Lawyers Conclude Senate Defence, Call For Acquittal

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By Ignatius Igwe

Updated February 3, 2020

White House defense team lawyers and Trump’s personal lawyer Jay Sekulow(C) arrive for the impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill February 3, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial resumes for final arguments Monday before an expected acquittal later in the week that Democrats have said will be invalid because no witnesses testified. The president was impeached in December for abuse of power over pressure on US ally Ukraine to announce investigations that would have helped him politically, including into Joe Biden, a leading challenger for this year’s presidential ballot. Brendan Smialowski / AFP

White House defence team lawyers and Trump’s personal lawyer Jay Sekulow(C) arrive for the impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill February 3, 2020 in Washington, DC. Brendan Smialowski / AFP

White House lawyers concluded their defence of President Donald Trump at his historic Senate impeachment trial on Monday with a call for his acquittal of charges of abuse of power.

“The president has done nothing wrong,” White House counsel Pat Cipollone told the 100 senators who will decide Trump’s fate with a vote on Wednesday.

Denouncing Trump’s impeachment by the House of Representatives as “purely partisan and political,” Cipollone said, “We put our faith in the Senate.”

“End the era of impeachment once and for all,” he urged senators, by rejecting the two articles of impeachment.

AFP