House managers: Trump's defense that abuse of power is not impeachable offense is 'wrong & dangerous
The House Democratic impeachment managers on Tuesday slammed the argument from President Trump’s legal defense team that the charges brought against the president are not impeachable offenses, calling it “wrong and dangerous” in their own separate filing.
The managers, led by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., called Trump’s action “indefensible” and reiterated the team's previous arguments that the framers of the Constitution would have found Trump liable to be removed from office on both articles of impeachment the House voted in favor of last month.
“There can be no reasonable dispute that the Framers would have considered a president’s solicitation of a foreign country’s election interference in exchange for critical American military and diplomatic support to be an impeachable offense,” the managers wrote in their brief. “Nor can there be any dispute that the Framers would have recognized that allowing a president to prevent Congress from investigating his misconduct would nullify the House’s ‘sole Power of Impeachment.’”
The managers added: “No amount of legal rhetoric can hide the fact that President Trump exemplifies why the Framers included the impeachment mechanism in the Constitution: to save the American people from these kinds of threats to our republic.”
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