Attention turns to Joe and Hunter Biden, and other highlights from the Senate Trump impeachment trial on Monday
House impeachment witnesses testified they did not hear of any linkage between aid and investigations from Trump himselfThe Trump administration'sSekulow argued that looking at the partial transcript released by the White House of the July 25 phone call between Trump and Zelensky would make clear there was no quid pro quo involving military aid. “I don’t think this was about just a phone call," Sekulow said.
“Like war, impeachment is hell, or at least presidential impeachment is hell," Starr said."Those of us who lived through the Clinton impeachment, including members of this body, full well understand that a president impeachment is tantamount to domestic war, although thankfully protected by our beloved First Amendment, a war of words, a war of ideas.
Mike Purpura, a deputy White House counsel who is defending President Donald Trump in the trial, also quoted several former U.S. officials describing those concerns, including Russian expert and former National Security Council official Fiona Hill and former envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker. Purpura also pointed to testimony supporting the claim that Trump had long expressed concerns about corruption.
"We would prefer not to be discussing this,” Bondi said. “But the House managers have placed this squarely at issue, so we must address it." Using testimony from impeachment witnesses, Bondi went through the history of well-known corruption within Burisma Holdings and its owner. George Kent, a State Department official, said in an impeachment hearing that he raised a concern about the appearance of the conflict of interest of Hunter Biden sitting on the Burisma board while Joe Biden carried out U.S. foreign policy in the country.
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