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 Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesThe White House's team of lawyers opened their case to acquit President Trump by relying on one phrase: Adam Schiff didn't tell you that.Â
Though Trump's defense team only spoke for about two hours on Saturday morning, they invoked that phrase over and over again.
The Democrats' lead impeachment prosecutor, they argued, took 24 hours to make his side's case but failed to mention that in Trump's July 25 call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, the president simply reminded his counterpart that the U.S. was unfairly doing more than Europeans for Ukraine's security. "We do a lot for Ukraine," said Trump, "We spend a lot of effort and a lot of time."
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The recording from a dinner in 2018 showed that the president spent an hour with two key players in the Ukraine pressure campaign. He has repeatedly said he does not know them.
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 A nearly 90-minute recording released Saturday of President Donald Trump at a 2018 dinner with indicted businessmen he has claimed he doesn't know includes Trump speaking animatedly about removing the US ambassador to Ukraine -- at one point stating, "Get rid of her!"
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 Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast/Photos GettyLike so many things in life that move slowly and then all at once, I fear Donald Trump has finally led America to the moment in our political history where things go very dark.
"Head on a pike." "Take her out." A rigged Senate impeachment trial with a foregone conclusion where one party isn't even bothering to pretend they have the least commitment to truth, the rule of law, or the good of the country. Calls for the arrests and court-martial of whistleblowers and truth-tellers. An endless assault on a free press. Taken separately, these are troubling glimpses inside the political hurricane of the moment, but as a mosaic, they portend something so much more dangerous.
The enemy is always within for Trump. The abundant testimony by Fiona Hill, Alexander Vindman and others about Trump's effort led by Rudy Giuliani and his private henchmen to wreck Joe Biden led to the abrupt removal of Yovanovitch isn't a surprise. What was a surprise was that Trump is caught on a recording admitting it.
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