“He may not have much to say in his own defense, but he cannot claim that he did not have an opportunity to be heard.” “President Trump chose not to show,” Nadler remarked in his opening statement this morning. “Now they’re accusing Ukraine.”Īs was widely expected, the White House counsel was conspicuously absent from today’s hearing – an absence Chairman Jerry Nadler attributed to Trump’s lack of a defense.
elections,” Putin announced in February 2017, quoted by Goldman this morning. “Thank God no one is accusing us any more of interfering in U.S. “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” then-candidate Trump declared in footage replayed before the committee this morning.īerke told Congress that Trump’s announcement mirrored his most recent one asking China to investigate the Bidens, some three years later.ĭemocrats wove the two controversies together through a common beneficiary: Russian President Vladimir Putin. Mueller’s report pointed out that, during the 2016 election contest with Hillary Clinton, Russian operatives tried to hack into Clinton’s servers mere hours after Trump openly invited the Kremlin to do so at a press conference in 2016. Goldman’s colleague Barry Berke made a point earlier Friday that the call occurred just one day after special counsel Robert Mueller testified before the same committee now investigating Trump. “The July 25 call was neither the start nor the end of President Trump’s efforts to use the powers of his office for personal political gain,” Goldman said, referring to the conversation between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that triggered a whistleblower complaint and weeks later these impeachment hearings. Goldman is one of two lawyers presenting the Democrats’ case for impeachment this morning before the House Judiciary Committee.
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