President Trump rails about the impeachment trial in morning tweetstorm, with multiple misleading assertions or falsehoods.
While Trump was denied the ability to have an attorney present during the House Intelligence Committee hearings, a lawyer for House Republicans, Steve Castor was permitted to question witnesses. Additionally, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., invited Trump to have an attorney present for his committee's portion of the investigation, but White House Counsel Pat Cipollone declined the offer.
In total, five witnesses requested by Republicans testified in the proceedings. In the Intelligence Committee investigation, Republican-requested witnesses Tim Morrison, Trump's former top Russia adviser, Kurt Volker, Trump's former special envoy to Ukraine, and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale all testified, though Democrats rejected GOP requests for the whistleblower, former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden and others to testify.
In the Judiciary Committee, GOP witnesses Castor and George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley testified. Regarding Trump's mention of witnesses, former national security adviser John Bolton and acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney — two of the witnesses Democrats are clamoring to have testify before the Senate — were sought for testimony by House investigators. The White House ordered them not to comply.
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