John Bolton Revelations Test Trump Impeachment Defense Strategy
Jan 28, 2020, 12:42 PM
Donald Trump’s impeachment team began their second day of arguments less than 24 hours after revelations from John Bolton threatened to undermine key aspects of their defense. But Trump’s lawyers decided to plow ahead on Monday, ignoring the Bolton news and keeping with the planned defense they had outlined over the weekend.
“We deal with transcript evidence,” Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow said at the outset of Monday’s arguments.