Democrats Wrap Up Final Day of Arguments
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We ran the numbers: There are 3076 news articles covering this topic. 42% (1303) are left leaning, 40% (1220) center, 18% (553) right leaning.
On Friday, House Democrats finished their third day of arguments that president Trump should be convicted and removed from office. Left-leaning articles highlight House Intelligence Committee Adam B. Schiff’s closing statements, while centrist articles recap the last day of arguments.
A left-leaning article by The New York Times highlights that in his closing, Schiff said that acquitting Trump would be an “unending injury to this country.” The article also notes that a recording was released that captured Trump talking about Marie L. Yovanovitch, the United States ambassador to Ukraine at the time. Furthermore, the fight over admitting new documents and witnesses continues.
A centrist article by NPR reports that Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., charged that Trump “created a toxic mess” and House manager Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said “He [Trump] is a dictator. This must not stand.” Meanwhile, Trump’s team will have 24 hours over three days to respond to issues raised by Democratic House managers, including foreign interference in the 2016 election and the hiring of Hunter Biden by a Ukrainian gas company.
New York Post published a centrist article emphasizing that on the final day of openings in the impeachment trial, House Democrats pushed their case that Trump is guilty of obstruction of Congress. The article reports that Jeffries told the senators that the president got caught asking Ukraine’s government to dig up dirt on Joe Biden and then tried to cover it up, making Republicans equally complicit in what he called the cover-up.
From the right
Trump impeachment: Democrats to push obstruction charge in last day of arguments
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