Democratic lawmakers leading the impeachment case against Donald Turmp on Thursday requested the former president to testify in his trial for allegedly inciting insurrection in the attack on the US Capitol last month. I write to invite you to provide testimony under oath, either before or during the Senate impeachment trial, concerning your conduct on January 6, 2021, chief impeachment manager Jamie Raskin wrote in a letter to Trump, ahead of the February 9 opening of the trial.
Raskin made the request after Trump s lawyers filed a pre-trial brief denying the allegations that he encouraged the violent assault by his supporters on the US Congress, which left five people dead.
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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks during an Oct. 12 hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool, File)
WASHINGTON (CN) Against the warning from top Republicans that such a challenge would go down “like a shot dog,” Senator Josh Hawley on Wednesday mounted the body’s first effort to unwind the Electoral College certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s November win.
A Missouri Republican, Hawley said he could not certify the results while there are concerns that Facebook and Twitter interfered in the 2020 election to support Biden. Hawley did not provide any evidence of such concerns, which he raised this morning along with questions about how Pennsylvania and others “failed to follow their own state election laws.”