Trump Team Wraps Up Impeachment Defense With Bolton Testimony in Question

Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump’s lawyers concluded their defense Tuesday, arguing his actions on Ukraine don’t warrant removal from office and trying to tamp down building pressure to call former National Security Advisor John Bolton to testify.

“I think we’ve made our case,” White House Counsel Pat Cipollone said as he delivered his final presentation. “The articles of impeachment fall far short of any constitutional standard and they are dangerous.”

The president’s team has accused Democrats of pursuing a partisan impeachment, arguing that there was no direct link between Trump’s decision to withhold financial aid from Ukraine and his pressure on that country to investigate political rival Joe Biden.

Bolton said the opposite, though, according to the New York Times, which reported that his forthcoming book says Trump directly linked the release of aid for Ukraine to investigations of Biden and his son, who served on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.

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