Donald Trump’s legal team began their defence of the president with an aggressive rebuttal of House Democrats’ charges that he tried to “cheat” to win the 2020 presidential race, while also warning senators they are being asked to remove their client from the ballot.Using the kind of brash rhetoric employed daily by Mr Trump, White House counsel Pat Cipollone closed Saturday’s session by warning the Democratic and Republican senators who will decide whether the president is removed from office that doing so would amount to an “abuse of power”.
