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Trump Team Vows To Deflate Democrats' Case As 1st Week Of Impeachment Trial Wraps

President Trump's legal team opened its response to the Democrats' allegations with a rare Saturday session that said the accusers' facts were wrong and Trump must preserve his office.

President Trump's accusers fell far short of proving wrongdoing or the case for removing him from office, defense attorneys told senators on Saturday as they opened their portion of the impeachment trial.

The presentation by White House counsel Pat Cipollone and his colleagues follows three days of opening arguments from House Democratic managers and marks the end of the first week of Trump's impeachment trial.

The defense team promised to eviscerate the Democrats' arguments with their own evidence and said the bottom line is simply that Democrats and much of officialdom hate Trump.

The case for removing a president for

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