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...Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Wednesday took a thinly veiled shot at Alan Dershowitz, who has agreed to serve on President Donald Trump's impeachment defense team.
...During his opening statement, Schiff ridiculed the argument made by Dershowitz that presidents cannot be impeached on charges of abuse of power, which is what Trump has been impeached on and what former President Richard Nixon would have been impeached on had he not resigned.
..."You will hear the president's lawyers make the astounding claim that you can't impeach a president for abusing the powers of his office," Schiff said.
...The California Democrat then mocked the president's legal team for having to resort to Dershowitz to make this outlandish claim.
..."Apparently they could not go to their own attorney general, who... in a memo he wrote as part of the audition for attorney general... opined that a president can be impeached for abusing the public trust," Schiff said.
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