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The lawyer for Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, Barry Berke said, “The evidence is overwhelming”. He said, “The facts assembled by the House Intelligence Committee in recent weeks remained undoubted and that they can’t be disputed”. On Monday, Democrats and Republicans both called upon their leading counsels to make their best case for and against the president’s impeachment. Berke played video clips of witnesses who were brought before the impeachment hearings last month. Democrats have argued that the evidence before the House Judiciary Committee amounts to clear proof of a “brazen” effort to advance his own political interests over those of the United States, as the impeachment probe into Donald Trump’s alleged abuse of power enters its final stages.

Democrats also called upon Democratic lawyer Daniel Goldman, who had led the questioning of witnesses during the Intelligence Committee hearings. Goldman said that the president not only attempted to distort the 2020 election with his actions in the past but that he has continued to do so in spite of the impeachment hearings. Democrats and Republicans both called upon their leading counsels to make their best case for and against the president’s impeachment, during lengthy and frequently contentious testimony on Monday. Republicans sought to defend the president by casting the inquiry as a chaotic process revealing little but a political bias against Trump.

Goldman pointed out that Trump had tweeted over the weekend that his personal lawyer would submit a report to the Justice Department regarding Democrats’ behavior. He said, “President Trump’s persistent and continuing effort to coerce a foreign country to help him cheat to win an election is a clear and present danger to our free and fair elections and to our national security”. It is noteworthy that Republicans repeatedly interrupted the hearings with calls for parliamentary inquiries. They also generated forcing repeated conflict between themselves and Judiciary chairman Jerry Nadler. The counsel hired by Republicans, Stephen Castor said, “Democrats are total psychos. This unfair process reflects the degree to which Democrats are obsessed with impeaching President Trump by any means necessary”.