Impeachment
On its second day of opening arguments,
President Trump's defense team almost
completely ignored the bombshell claims made by former national
security adviser John Bolton. Instead, lawyers focused on attacking Joe
and Hunter Biden, as expected. And they even brought out former
independent counsel Kenneth Starr, who led the investigation leading to
President Bill Clinton's impeachment, to warn senators of what he called the
"age of impeachment." When the defense finally did get around to
mentioning Bolton's claims, Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz claimed that not
only was any quid pro quo in Trump's Ukraine dealings not an abuse of power,
but abuse of power itself is a "political weapon" and not necessarily
an impeachable offense. Meanwhile, moderate Republicans are still mulling the
case for having witnesses at the trial, and Sen. Mitt Romney believes it's
"increasingly likely" that other
Republicans would now join him in calling for Bolton to testify.