House Managers Conclude Three-Day Opening Arguments in Senate Impeachment Trial

This appeared in The Millennial Source

Friday, January 24, was the last of three days for the House managers to present their opening arguments against President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial.

The prosecution has been pushing back against the notion that acquittal is a foregone conclusion, and has laid out a detailed account of Trump’s alleged crimes.

What was presented in the first three days of the impeachment trial

The House managers, led by Representative Adam Schiff, spent three days laying out the House’s case for impeachment. Their case includes the testimony of former Ukrainian diplomat Marie Yovanovitch, who has said that she was subjected to a smear campaign designed to get her removed from her post.

The final day of testimony focused on evidence that Trump obstructed justice by barring witnesses from testifying and, in doing so, withheld evidence. In the midst of the trial, Trump appeared to taunt the House managers during a press conference on Wednesday in which he said, “We have all the material. They don’t have the material.”