Trump Lawyers Ready For Final Day Of President's Impeachment Defense
More detail on the defense was in the article, but I noticed a quote from Ken Starr later on in the article:
I'm not sure if it's hell for the president, hell for Congress, or hell for the rest of us.
But in a way, I agree: Impeachment is hell.
Shortly before winding down Monday night's arguments in the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump, defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz addressed the elephant in the room: whether potential testimony from former national security adviser John Bolton would alter the course of the proceeding.
Dershowitz was the first member of the president's defense team to directly acknowledge how recent Bolton news had consumed Washington, as speculation raged over the Senate possibly calling him as a witness.
Bolton's possible first-hand account of the events at the heart of the impeachment trial? Not necessary, argued Dershowitz.
"Nothing in the Bolton revelations, even if true, would rise to the level of an abuse of power or an impeachable offense," he said.
More detail on the defense was in the article, but I noticed a quote from Ken Starr later on in the article:
Ken Starr, who is defending Trump and who led the investigation into then-President Bill Clinton that triggered Clinton's impeachment, made the case that Trump's impeachment, the third impeachment trial in American history, shows that "we are living in what aptly can be described as the age of impeachment," adding the process is "filled with acrimony and divides the country like nothing else."
Starr, whose impeachment investigation of Clinton resulted in acquittal, framed impeachment in dramatic terms.
"Like war, impeachment is hell, or at least, presidential impeachment is hell," he said.
I'm not sure if it's hell for the president, hell for Congress, or hell for the rest of us.
But in a way, I agree: Impeachment is hell.