Impeachment Trial Live Updates: Final Day of Q&A Before Vote on Witnesses
"The second day of the question and answers in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial commences Thursday. House managers led by Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) will duel with Trump’s legal team on the Senate floor."
"Dershowitz: News Outlets Distorted Argument
Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law professor emeritus, said news outlets distorted arguments he made on the Senate floor.
“They characterized my argument as if I had said that if a president believes that his reelection was in the national interest, he can do anything,” Dershowitz said on Twitter. “I said nothing like that, as anyone who actually heard what I said can attest.”
He wrote: “I did not say or imply that a candidate could do anything to reassure his reelection, only that seeking help in an election is not necessarily corrupt, citing the Lincoln and Obama examples. Critics have an obligation to respond to what I said, not to create straw men to attack.”
Then he concluded: “What I said was that there are 3 broad categories of relevant motive: 1) pure national interest ( help the military) 2) pure corrupt motive ( get a kickback) And 3) mixed motive (help the national interest in a way that helps your reelection efforts ) (MTC).”"
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