Trump’s defense team began its second day of arguments with a high-minded lecture from Ken Starr about the dangers of partisan impeachments, before launching scathing broadsides at one of the president’s top rivals for the presidency, Democrat Joe Biden
Starr, the independent counsel during the 1990s who investigated then-President Bill Clinton and was seen as a highly partisan figure, was the first lawyer on Monday to make the case that Trump should not be removed from office, as the president’s defense began its first full day after a shortened session on Saturday.
But by the late afternoon, the president’s lawyers had entered into a 90-minute presentation of evidence they said justified Trump’s request that the Ukrainian government look into allegations of corruption involving former Vice President Joe Biden, who is running for president against Trump. All other reporting and commentary out of Ukraine has concluded that Shokin was not investigating Burisma, and had in fact resisted calls from the U.S. State Department to do so. Anticorruption activists in Ukraine have said that the firing of Shokin, which happened in the early spring of 2016, actually increased the chances that Burisma be prosecuted.
The leading impeachment manager, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., pointed out to reporters, however, that Trump did not begin inquiring into Biden’s record in Ukraine until early 2019, when Biden entered the presidential race and was shown to be beating Trump in head to head polls. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, looked gleeful as she talked about the harmful political impact the focus on Burisma could have on Biden’s presidential candidacy in her home state on Feb. 3, when voters will take part in the Iowa caucuses. “I’m really interested to see how this discussion today informs and influences the Iowa caucus voters, those Democratic caucus goers. Will they be supporting Vice President Biden at this point?” Ernst asked with a wide smile.
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