President Donald Trump’s attorneys dedicated the first day of their defense arguments to exposing what they described as omissions in the narrative presented by the Democratic impeachment managers, asking the senators at the trial to consider why crucial evidence had been left out.
In arguments that lasted roughly two hours, the attorneys shed light on the context of the facts presented at length by the Democrats over the course of the three prior days. The defense suggested that the omissions are intentional because the relevant facts would be fatal to the impeachment managers’ case.
