Published: January 29, 2020
Question and answer session focuses on Trump’s motivations and calling witnesses – especially John Bolton
The opposing legal teams in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial locked horns directly for the first time on Wednesday, as an interrogation period began in which senators submitted questions in writing to be read aloud by Chief Justice John Roberts, who is presiding.
The format set up clashes over Trump’s motivations, the power of Congress to call witnesses from the executive branch and, most of all, the need – or not – for the former national security adviser John Bolton and possibly other witnesses to testify at the trial.
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