US Democrats accuse Donald Trump at his historic Senate impeachment trial of seeking to cheat to ensure re-election
Lead manager House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff delivers an opening argument as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell prepares to speak during the second day of the Senate impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump in this frame grab from video shot in the US Senate Chamber n Washington on January 22, 2020.
"And when he was caught, he used the powers of that office to obstruct the investigation into his own misconduct," said Schiff, who headed the probe that led to Trump's December 18 impeachment by the Democratic-controlled House. "President Trump withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to a strategic partner at war with Russia to secure foreign help with his re-election," Schiff said at the nationally televised proceedings.Interspersing his remarks with video of House inquiry testimony and clips of Trump himself, Schiff appealed to the Senate's 100 members to put aside partisanship in deciding Trump's fate.
Republicans defeated repeated efforts by Democrats to introduce White House witnesses and documents at the start of the trial.The president defended the Republicans' rejection of Democratic efforts to force former national security advisor John Bolton and others to testify, saying of Bolton, for example, that it would present a "national security problem."
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