Trump’s lawyers accuse Democrats of a ‘dangerous attack’ on the rights of American voters and of interfering in the 2020 election as they issue a furious response to impeachment
President Donald Trump’s legal team has issued a furious response to the articles of impeachment, accusing House Democrats of engaging in a ‘dangerous attack’ on the rights of voters.
‘This is a brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and interfere with the 2020 election now just months away,’ reads the filing sent Saturday in response to the Senate’s impeachment trial summons.
‘The highly partisan and reckless obsession with impeaching the President began the day he was inaugurated and continues to this day,’ the response continues.
It is the opening salvo in Trump’s legal defense, after high profile attorneys Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr signed on to argue on his behalf in the Senate impeachment trial.
Trump ‘s legal team has issued a furious response to the articles of impeachment
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, with committee chairs and House impeachment managers, signs the articles of impeachment earlier this week
Saturday’s six-page response is signed by two other members of Trump’s legal team, Jay Sekulow and Pat Cipollone.
The strongly-worded letter says that the two articles of impeachment, which allege abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, ‘must be rejected.’
‘The Articles of Impeachment violate the Constitution,’ the letter reads.
‘In order to preserve out constitutional structure of government, to reject the poisonous partisanship that the Framers warned against, to ensure one-party politial impeachment vendettas do not become the “new normal,” and to vindicate the will of the American people, the Senate must reject both Articles of Impeachment,’ it continues.
‘In the end, this entire process is nothing more than a dangerous attack on the American people themselves and their fundamental right to vote,’ it concludes.
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