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Donald Trump impeachment trial | Trump lawyers decry impeachment case as political vengeance

Donald Trump impeachment trial | Trump lawyers decry impeachment case as political vengeance

The Hindu
Friday, February 12, 2021 07:38:38 PM UTC

Lawyers for Donald Trump opened his impeachment defense on Friday by strenuously denying he played any role in inciting the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, blasting the case against him as politically motivated “hatred” and part of a years-long Democratic “witch hunt.” Lawyers for the former president told senators that Trump was entitled to dispute the 2020 election results and that his doing so, including in a speech that preceded the assault on the Capitol, did not amount to inciting the violence that followed. They sought to turn the tables on prosecutors by likening the Democrats' questioning of the legitimacy of Trump's 2016 win to his challenge of his election loss.
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