Background Press Call on Impeachment

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 25, 2020

(Anon highlights from POTUS's legal team)

"We intend to present a robust defense on both fact and the law. We think that people got to see a taste of that today. And we’ll look forward to continuing to present the defense and go through the bulk of it in the coming days."

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"I am not going to get into, sort of, the strategy of what we’ll be presenting in the coming days. I think you’ll see that as we present it. And that’s best left to be developed, you know, in the Senate Chamber as we present the case."

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"The fact is that the House Democrats used to say that they had overwhelming evidence, but now that they don’t have overwhelming evidence they’re saying that they need to have more evidence. So I wouldn’t put too much stock in that."

"In terms of the Bidens and that, I’m not going to get into what we’ll be presenting in court. You know, as I said, I think it’s best left to be developed as the case proceeds in the Senate."

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"One problem was that they began this impeachment inquiry in the HPSCI and the other committees that were meeting in the SCIF without any vote from the House to authorize it. And the essential point is that the Constitution gives the impeachment power to the House as a chamber – the whole House. …So those subpoenas were issued without authority and they were invalid. "

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"So it was clear that the process was already a foregone conclusion, and there wasn’t going to be any real process. It was just going for show. And so the President determined that he would not sort of lend an air of legitimacy to that by participating."

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