President Trump’s legal team presented its defense session in the Senate on Saturday. According to the American media, the senators agreed to meet this day for an abbreviated session of two to three hours, before postponing the work until Monday afternoon. But, according to BBC news, it took only two hours for the team led by lawyer Pat A. Cipollone to expound all his arguments, ending one hour ahead of time.
In the final remarks, Cipollone criticized the impeachment promoters’ requests to remove President Trump from office. In a nutshell, and with a strategy considered aggressive, the White House adviser told the senators that it would be “an irresponsible abuse of the power they have if the president did what they are asking of them”.
“To interrupt an election? To interfere in the election and remove the president from the United States? Let the people decide for themselves,” he concluded. “That was what the founders of the US Constitution wanted and what we should all want.”
Trump’s personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow, also took a copy of Mueller’s report with him to the Senate to accuse Democrats of trying to impale the Impeachment with the investigation of whether or not Russia interfered in the American elections.
“Let me tell you something”. That is how Sekulow addressed the senators. This report cost more than $ 32 million, gathered 2,800 subpoenas, 500 search warrants, 200 requests for records of communications and 500 interviews with witnesses, the lawyer recalled. And all in order to reach the following conclusion: “This investigation did not establish any connection that the president’s campaign coordinated or conspired with the Russian government with its electoral interference activities. ‘”
Special attorney Robert Mueller’s investigation did not find enough evidence to establish a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to influence the election. But he said the Trump campaign hoped to benefit from Russian hacker action against Trump’s opponents, in this case against Hillary Clynton.
Trump’s lawyers were quick. The president had not been satisfied with Saturday’s schedule because, he argued, it would not be in terms of television audiences. And as soon as the lawyers could, they ended the session, moving the work to Monday, early afternoon.
Democrats throughout the week have submitted lengthy testimonies, but Republicans seem committed to one plan: a quick trial and, most likely, a quick acquittal from the president, the BBC argues.
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