President Donald Trump's lawyers urged the US Senate Tuesday to reject the charges against him Tuesday, closing their impeachment defense by accusing the Democrats of placing him on trial for political reasons. "We urge the Senate to reject these articles of impeachment." "If partisan impeachment is now the rule of the day... future presidents, Democrats Republicans, will be paralyzed the moment they are elected," said Jay Sekulow, another Trump lawyer. "The bar for impeachment cannot be set this low." But the trial faced fresh controversy as Democrats demanded that Trump's former national security advisor John Bolton be called as a witness.

Source: Punch January 28, 2020 20:26 UTC