Trump’s Impeachment Defense Takes Its Cue From the President
Jan 26, 2020, 12:29 PM
When Donald Trump's lawyers began their opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial on Jan. 25, much of their argument boiled down to a phrase the President himself has been repeating for months: read the transcript.
The President's lawyers focused on the White House summary of the July 25, 2019 call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as the central piece of evidence.