Trump Impeachment Defense Opens Arguments

The tables have turned in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.

After three days of arguments from the House impeachment managers, the President's legal team has taken over the Senate floor to deliver their side of the story, detailing the defense of the President against the two articles of impeachment.
"You heard the House managers speak for nearly 24 hours over three days," White House counsel Pat Cipollone said on the floor of the Senate as he began his remarks. "We don't anticipate using that much time."
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Donald Trump has always been a man of absolutes.

Something is the best or the worst, a person is a winner or a total loser, an event has never happened before, even when it has.

Absolutism was the unwritten credo of his career in business and is the guiding light of his presidency as he makes an assertion rarely heard from an American president: that he can do as he pleases.

Now that approach faces its ultimate test as a foundation of Trump’s defense in his impeachment trial, namely that...