{"id":141262,"date":"2020-01-25T21:30:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T21:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/trump-defense-team-should-just-tell-the-truth-in-impeachment-trial\/"},"modified":"2020-01-25T21:30:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T21:30:28","slug":"trump-defense-team-should-just-tell-the-truth-in-impeachment-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/trump-defense-team-should-just-tell-the-truth-in-impeachment-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Defense Team Should Just Tell the Truth in Impeachment Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump said he thinks his defense team should stick to telling the truth as they make arguments for the first time in days in the Senate impeachment trial.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat my people have to do is just be honest, just tell the truth,\u201d Trump told Fox News on Friday. \u201cTheyve been testifying, the Democrats, theyve been telling so many lies, so many fabrications, so much exaggeration. And this is not impeachable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president insisted he hadnt committed a crime, noting that even Democrats agree. But the opposition party is attempting to convince senators that what Trump did was still impeachable.<\/p>\n

\u201cI dont even know how to determine this, but they say its not a crime, everybody says that,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Democrats] say, But it doesnt have to be a crime. Well, maybe it doesnt have to be a crime, but can you imagine being impeached and you didnt commit a crime?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump also commented on the House impeachment managers and Senate Democrats arguing that Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, wasnt linked at all to the impeachment proceedings.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you look at the Bidens and the Biden family, when somebody with actually, not a job, who just was taken out of the Navy\u2014I mean, thrown out of the Navy, had nothing, all of a sudden the father becomes vice president \u2026 the son is making millions and millions of dollars,\u201d Trump said. \u201cIts corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump was impeached by House Democrats on Dec. 18, 2019, for abuse of office and obstruction of Congress. The first charge stemmed from the presidents actions pertaining to Ukraine, primarily his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his placement of a hold on congressionally approved military aid to the country.<\/p>\n

Trump asked Zelensky to \u201clook into<\/a>\u201d corruption allegations against the Bidens, who both did work in Ukraine\u2014Joe Biden, as vice president, leading efforts to reform the country, and Hunter Biden working for the Ukrainian company Burisma Holdings.<\/p>\n

Trump noted that Joe Biden in 2018 talked about landing in Ukraine in 2016 and pressuring leaders to oust Viktor Shokin, a prosecutor who was probing Burisma.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI said, youre not getting the billion. Im going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: Im leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, youre not getting the money. Well, son of a [expletive]. He got fired,\u201d Biden said at a Council on Foreign Relations event.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd they put in place someone who was solid at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bidens have denied wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheres a lot of talk about Bidens son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great,\u201d Trump told Zelensky. \u201cBiden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it\u2026 It sounds horrible to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zelensky said he was aware of what happened and would instruct his top prosecutor to look into it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe issue of the investigation of the case is actually making sure to restore the honesty,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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