Senator Ted Cruz pointed out a “critical mistake” made by Democrat impeachment managers during their opening arguments in the Senate trial.
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According to Town Hall:
“I think it was gratifying that, number one, it was the first time the president has had his legal team to defend him,” Cruz explained. “Throughout this whole proceeding in the House, they wouldn’t let the president defend himself. Finally, today, we got that.”
“Secondly, I think every senator is grateful for the neverending argument, the 24 hours of nonstop from the House managers, is over,” the Texas senator said. “As their closing argument ended last night, I sense, and I think the sense of a lot of people, is they failed to prove their case. Today, I think, the president’s lawyers did an effective job pointing out just how selective the Democrats’] quotations were from the record, how much they left out.”
Cruz said he’s looking forward to Monday’s hearing when President Trump’s defense team gets to present “the principled defense.”
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Cruz said he believes House impeachment managers “made a critical mistake because the central element of their argument is the proposition that [the call] was baseless, that it was frivolous, to want to investigate Burisma, the Ukrainian natural gas company, and whether or not Joe Biden and Hunter Biden – remember [Burisma] was paying Hunter a million bucks a year – and Joe Biden pressured Ukraine, threatened a billion dollars in aid, to force Ukraine to fire the prosecutor who was investigating Burisma, the company that was paying Hunter,” Cruz explained.
Cruz also made clear that a vote to dismiss is unlikely to happen with Senators wanting to vote to acquit President Trump.
