WASHINGTON D.C.: Democrats Wednesday accused President Donald Trump at his historic Senate impeachment trial of seeking to “cheat” to ensure re-election in November, as they began laying out their detailed case for removing him from office. Schiff shrugged off Republican arguments that American voters — and not the Senate — should decide whether Trump should remain in the White House. “President Trump withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to a strategic partner at war with Russia to secure foreign help with his re-election,” Schiff said at the nationally televised proceedings. Republicans shot down repeated efforts by Democrats to introduce White House witnesses and documents at the start of the trial. White House lawyers then have 24 hours to present their defense.

Source: Pakistan Today January 23, 2020 01:41 UTC