Can President Trump salvage himself from impeachment?

President Donald Trump has lined up a team of old guards to defend him in the impeachment proceedings for abuse of power for political gains as Senate seem all too ready to pick up from where the Congress or the House of Representatives has finished the case against him to add a new chapter to American history of sending back homes their powerful heads of State.

Information collected from New York Times, and several other sources reveal that charges against President Trump will be read out loud, and lawmakers will lay the procedural groundwork for the trial.

Noted lawyer Starr, whose investigation into President Bill Clinton's sexual relationships led to his impeachment, will be joined by Robert Ray, who succeeded Mr. Starr as independent counsel and wrote the final report on Mr. Clinton, the person said.

Rounding out the team will be Mr. Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor who became famous as a defense counsel for high-profile defendants like O.J. Simpson. This will be the third time in recent memory that US Presidents will face the humiliation. Richard Nixon was the first to be impeached, but pardoned later, and Bill Clinton narrowly escaped yet another disaster ater his wife Hillary defended him publicly, and the Mona Lovenski sex scandal ended rather abruptly.

In a six-page filing formally responding to the impeachment charges, President Trump's lawyers rejected the case against him as illegitimate and described the effort to remove him as dangerous.

President Trump's legal defense team strenuously denied on Saturday that he had committed impeachable acts, denouncing the charges against him as a 'brazen and unlawful' attempt to cost him re-election as House Democrats laid out in meticulous detail their case that he should be removed from office.

In the first legal filings for the Senate impeachment trial that opens in earnest on Tuesday, the dueling arguments from the White House and the House impeachment managers previewed a politically charged fight over Mr. Trump's fate, unfolding against the backdrop of the presidential election campaign, reported the New York Times.

They presented the legal strategies both sides are likely to employ during the third presidential impeachment trial in American history. They also vividly illustrated how the proceeding is almost certain to rekindle feuding over the 2016 election that has barely subsided during Mr. Trump's tenure, and reverberate - whether he is convicted or acquitted - in an...

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