NEW: President Trump's legal team accuses Democrats of a 'dangerous attack on the right of the American people to freely choose their president' in formal response to Senate impeachment trial summons.
"Through his obstruction of the House’s impeachment inquiry, President Trump attempted to place himself above the law and undermined the fundamental Constitutional principles on which our Nation was founded," Congressional leaders said in a statement."The President’s gross abuse of power and obstruction of Congress reflect a pattern of misconduct and an ongoing threat to the Nation.
"This is a brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and interfere with the 2020 election—now just months away," the statement read, in part."The highly partisan and reckless obsession with impeaching the President began the day he was inaugurated and continues to this day."
The House managers pointed to a July 25, 2019, call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in which Trump asked his counterpart to “do us a favor.” That favor, the House managers allege, was for Ukraine to publicly announce two investigations that could have benefited Trump politically.
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