The Democrats' far-fetched legal arguments in the impeachment trial

Betsy McCaughey:
The White House fired back at President Trump’s impeachers Monday, taking aim at their far-fetched legal arguments and blatant dishonesty. Trump’s lawyers called the Democrats’ grounds for impeachment a “made-up theory.” They singled out House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff for “lying,” violating “basic fairness” and “concocting” the whistleblower complaint.

The White House brief is Trump’s battle plan for his trial, which begins in earnest Wednesday. It also warns Dems that if they force the Senate to call witnesses, Schiff will have to testify about his role in engineering the “whistleblower” complaint and then denying it, and Joe and Hunter Biden will be grilled about their Ukraine dealings.

Schiff is already playing tricks, excluding the whistleblower’s complaint from the trial documents the House transmitted, as if senators shouldn’t probe how this impeachment got started.

Trump’s lawyers show the Framers intended impeachment only for the most serious crimes. Yet House Democrats are insisting they can impeach a president even “for doing something he’s allowed to do,” if he’s motivated by “private self-interest” rather than the national interest.

Such “an amorphous and undefined standard” would make every president a target of impeachment, Trump’s lawyers warn. It would spell the end of an independent presidency and undermine the US Constitution.
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And, Team Trump asks, why should Biden be inoculated from investigations just because he is running for president? In dealing with Ukraine, asking about corruption is legitimate.
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Back then, The New York Times cautioned that Biden’s anti-corruption message “may have been undermined” by Hunter’s lucrative arrangement. The Washington Post said it looked “nepotistic at best, nefarious at worst.” Now, these papers call these concerns “discredited.”
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The fact is that they have not been "discredited" to the satisfaction of most sentient people who are not Democrat partisans who hate Trump.   It makes no sense that Biden is immune from the investigation because he is a candidate for President.  In fact, that should make most honest people want to see an investigation of the alleged corruption before votes are cast.  The Democrat argument is nonsensical and looks like an attempted cover-up of corruption of one of their candidates.

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