US President Donald Trump’s legal team, will this week start up the president’s defense trial with the argument that an ‘abuse of power’ is not an impeachable office, and he should never have been impeached in the House of Reps for that because it isn’t a crime.
Details of the President’s Legal team’s counter-argument emerged from a document the White House sent to Capitol Hill on Saturday night and in television interviews made by his legal advisers.
Trump was impeached by the House of Reps for allegedly withholding military aid to Ukraine in exchange for the Ukrainian government announcing an investigation into Joe Biden, his political opponent.
Harvard Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz, who has just joined Trump’s legal team, told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday “He argued successfully to the Senate that criminal-like conduct is required. That argument prevailed. I will be making that argument as a lawyer on behalf of the President’s defense team against impeachment. You have a lot of evidence, disputed evidence that could go both ways. But the vote was to impeach on abuse of power which is not within the constitutional criteria for impeachment and obstruction of justice”