House Intelligence Committee chairman and former federal prosecutor Adam Schiff on Wednesday kicked off the House’s arguments for the removal of Donald Trump by taking a shot at the president’s lawyers.
The president’s legal team has argued that abuse of power isn’t an impeachable offense, and that Trump must have committed a crime to be removed from office. It’s a legal argument that constitutional scholars have rejected, and on Wednesday, Schiff did as well.
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