No crime, Trump lawyers argue: Dems want to nullify election
(WorldNews Politics)

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump`s lawyers plunged into their impeachment trial defense Saturday by accusing Democrats of striving to overturn the 2016 election, arguing that investigations of Trump`s dealings with Ukraine have not been a fact-finding mission but a politically motivated effort to drive him from the White House. `They`re here to perpetrate the most massive interference in an election in American history,` White House Counsel Pat Cipollone told senators. `And we can`t allow that to happen.` The Trump legal team`s arguments in the rare Saturday session were aimed at rebutting allegations that the president abused his power when he asked Ukraine to investigate political...