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Trump Defense Impeachment Memo

Trump Defense Impeachment Memo

A brief review of Trump's Defenses

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The impeachment trial of citizen Trump for his actions as President Trump begins tomorrow, February 9. Today, his lawyers filed a lengthy and thorough trial memorandum in support of his factual and jurisdictional defenses. You can read the full memorandum in PDF format here.

Or, to save time, we have a summary of all the arguments below.

The Constitutional Argument: The Senate Lacks Jurisdiction to Conduct an Impeachment Trial of a Former President.

While Trump has numerous factual defenses - plans were made prior to the speech, he breach occurred before his speech ended - the jurisdictional argument might be his best defense. To summarize, the Senate’s powers are laid out by the Constitution. This includes the power to impeach the President (current). As to former presidents, who are now private citizens, Trump’s memo argues:

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