{"id":118708,"date":"2021-02-05T10:59:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T15:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=118708"},"modified":"2021-02-05T11:13:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T16:13:00","slug":"president-trump-legal-team-denies-democrats-request-for-him-to-testify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-legal-team-denies-democrats-request-for-him-to-testify\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump legal team denies Democrats\u2019 request for him to testify"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpresident-trump-legal-team-denies-democrats-request-for-him-to-testify%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=118708&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2366686\" style=\"width: 621px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2366686\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2366686 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AP21026015464072-611x437.jpg\" alt width=\"611\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2366686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheryl Johnson, clerk of the House of Representatives and Timothy Blodgett, acting Sergeant at Arms of the House lead Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., lead manager, and other Democratic House impeachment managers walk through the Capitol, to deliver to the Senate the article of impeachment alleging incitement of insurrection against former President Donald Trump, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021 in Washington. (Jonathan Ernst\/Pool via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>\nUPDATED 7:54 AM PT \u2013 Friday, February 5, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>President Trump\u2019s legal team denied Democrats\u2019 request form him to testify at next week\u2019s Senate impeachment trial. The decision was made after Rep. Jamie Raskin (D- Md.) issued an invitation to the President in a letter on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Defense attorneys responded just hours later by calling the request a publicity stunt. They asserted the move confirms Democrats cannot prove allegations against the 45th president.<\/p>\n<p>In his letter, Raskin cited the recent brief filed by President Trump\u2019s attorneys in which they called the trial unconstitutional. The lawmaker said he would like to give the President a chance to explain during testimony either before or during the impeachment trial.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN: Lead Impeachment Manager <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepRaskin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepRaskin<\/a> Statement on Former President Trump&#8217;s Refusal to Testify Under Oath<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1RVMxdy7W3\">https:\/\/t.co\/1RVMxdy7W3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 House Judiciary Dems (@HouseJudiciary) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HouseJudiciary\/status\/1357506758500048896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) slammed the majority party while speaking to OAN on Thursday. He noted, House Democrats did a miserable job building a legal case for President Trump\u2019s second impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey did nothing to get evidence and the idea being that they had to get it done because Congress is almost out of session\u2026that\u2019s not true,\u201d he stated. \u201cIf we can impeach somebody whose out of office, they have all the time in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy signaled he\u2019s unsure on whether he would like to hear testimony from the President himself. However, Democrat leadership has yet to announce if witnesses will be called to the stand amid the upcoming trial.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2366687\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2366687\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2366687 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AP21027764628320.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2366687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., speaks during a confirmation hearing for Secretary of Veterans Affairs nominee Denis McDonough before the Senate Committee on Veterans\u2019 Affairs on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, in Washington. (Sarah Silbiger\/Pool via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cassidy believes the Democrat-led House failed at building a case and is scrambling to build one at the last-minute. He slammed Democrats for rushing the process while noting they had five hours from the time they initiated impeachment to the time they voted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just have to emphasize, if the House is going to build a case five hours from start to finish, it\u2019s not building a case, \u201d stated the Louisiana Republican. \u201cThey let us down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2366689 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/letter.jpg\" alt width=\"679\" height=\"914\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/president-trump-preemptively-resigns-from-the-screen-actors-guild\/\">President Trump preemptively resigns from the Screen Actors Guild<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheryl Johnson, clerk of the House of Representatives and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892706,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3685,4775,4431,3669,4000,3634],"class_list":["post-118708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-democrats","tag-denies","tag-legal","tag-president","tag-team","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}