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riversedge

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Thu Jan 30, 2020, 02:59 PM Jan 2020

Team Trump Trips Over GOP Questions About Facts Of The Ukraine Gambit

AND yet both times I listened in today--the trumpy lawyers were harping on Bidens biden biden.




Team Trump Trips Over GOP Questions About Facts Of The Ukraine Gambit

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/team-trump-trips-over-gop-questions-about-facts-of-the-ukraine-gambit





WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 29: In this screengrab taken from a Senate Television webcast, Legal Counsel for President Donald Trump, Deputy White House Counsel Patrick Philbin, answers a question from a senator during i... MORE

January 29, 2020 11:12 p.m.


Through eight hours of senator questions Wednesday, President Trump’s legal team stumbled the most when facing questions about the underlying facts of the case against the President — including questions posed by GOP senators.

Twice, Trump’s lawyers struggled to distinguish how the President’s obsession with investigating Joe Biden could be separated from the political advantage of smearing a possible electoral opponent. They also fumbled a softball question about Hunter Biden’s allegedly corrupt activities in the Ukraine.

All three questions were put forward by Republicans, as Democrats have mostly aimed their questions at the House managers.

The difficulty the Trump team has had with grappling with the facts bolstering the Democrats case may be the reason many Republicans are coalescing around an acquittal argument that will assert the President did nothing wrong in his Ukraine gambit. It also explains why other Republicans are glomming onto a far-outside-the-norm legal theory put forward by the Trump team asserting that abuse of power, which the House alleges, is not an impeachable offense......................................

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