Schiff pushes back: Defense team knows Trump is guilty
By Olivia Beavers and Mike Lillis - 01/25/20 03:03 PM EST
The House Democrats trying their impeachment case before the Senate slammed President Trump’s defense arguments on Saturday, maintaining the president’s lawyers are attacking the prosecutors for a simple strategic reason: They know their client is guilty.
Led by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the team of impeachment managers held a press conference after the White House legal team spent roughly two hours on the Senate floor seeking to unravel the Democrats’ arguments, aired over the previous three days.
The Democrats claimed Trump’s defense team was merely “distracting†from the meat of the case by focusing on disparate topics — including Schiff, the Mueller report and the esoteric impeachment process — rather than challenging the evidence they had meticulously laid out.
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