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AP FACT CHECK: Trump's impeachment defense and the facts

by Associated Press
| January 26, 2020 12:05 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's lawyers opened his Senate impeachment defense Saturday with the false assertion that Democrats tried to shut the president's team out of the congressional inquiry that preceded the charges. Actually, Democrats invited Trump to participate and he declined.

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