{"id":129645,"date":"2020-01-28T03:03:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T02:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/01\/28\/trump-impeachment-defense-team-cites-debunked-conspiracy-theory-live\/"},"modified":"2020-01-28T03:03:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T02:03:12","slug":"trump-impeachment-defense-team-cites-debunked-conspiracy-theory-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=129645","title":{"rendered":"Trump impeachment: defense team cites debunked conspiracy theory \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Impeachment trial resumes with Trump\u2019s defense\u2019s opening argumentsBolton book claims Trump linked Ukraine aid to Biden inquiryTrump rejects allegations with one word: \u2018False\u2019Help us cover the critical issues of 2020. Consider making a contribution 1.57am GMT Alan Dershowitz broached a topic that members of Trump\u2019s defense team have largely avoided: John Bolton. \u201cNothing in the Bolton revelations, even if true, would rise to the level of an abuse of power or an impeachable offense,\u201d Derschowitz said, referring to reports that Bolton, a former national security adviser, had written a book in which he recounts that Trump told him in an August 2019 meeting that he did not want to send aid to Ukraine until that country delivered material relating to Joe Biden and to supporters of Hillary Clinton. Related: Trump’s impeachment defense team pretends Bolton news does not exist 1.48am GMT Arguing that abuse of power allegations are a \u201cpolitical weapon\u201d, Alan Dershowitz claimed that George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, James Polk, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and Barack Obama could all have been impeached by the standard. \u201cLincoln had dueling motives\u201d, Dershowitz added, noting that Abraham Lincoln was not so different than Donald Trump in that he wanted to advance his political career. Continue reading…
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Impeachment trial resumes with Trump\u2019s defense\u2019s opening argumentsBolton book claims Trump linked Ukraine aid to Biden inquiryTrump rejects allegations with one word: \u2018False\u2019Help us cover the critical issues of 2020. Consider making a contribution 1.57am GMT Alan Dershowitz broached a topic that members of Trump\u2019s defense team have largely avoided: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}