The White House filing shifted the tone toward a more legal response but still echoed with campaign-style slogans. The White House legal team led by Pat Cipollone and Jay Sekulow soon followed, both sides under instructions to keep the chamber doors closed to onlookers and the media. The White House legal team said Monday it supports whatever package McConnell puts forward. “President Trump asserts that his impeachment is a partisan ‘hoax.’ He is wrong,” the prosecutors wrote. Administration officials have argued that similar imprecision applied to the perjury case in the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, who was acquitted by the Senate.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer January 20, 2020 22:41 UTC