Lawyers preparing to defend
Donald Trump at his
Senate impeachment trial took to the talk show circuit on Sunday to argue the president could not be removed from office over abuse of power, a position dismissed as “absurdist” and “arrant nonsense” by
Democrats Adam Schiff and Jerrold Nadler, their leading opponents.The president himself was in
Texas yesterday taking a victory lap over his new trade deal with
China, thanking attendees at the
American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual convention for backing his stand-off with the economic superpower despite their being hardest hit by it.