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Trump impeachment: defense team cites debunked conspiracy theory – live

* Impeachment trial resumes with Trump’s defense’s opening arguments
* Bolton book claims Trump linked Ukraine aid to Biden inquiry
* Trump rejects allegations with one word: ‘False’
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LIVE Updated 6m ago

Maanvi Singh in San Francisco (now) and Joan E Greve in Washington (earlier)

Tue 28 Jan 2020 11.41 AEDT
First published on Tue 28 Jan 2020 01.24 AEDT

16m ago Who's who?

2h ago Pam Bondi pushes debunked conspiracy theory, contradicts herself in Trump's defense

6h ago Supreme Court allows 'public charge' rule to take effect while challenges unfold

6h ago Starr criticized for warning of impeachment becoming 'normalized'

6h ago Starr bemoans 'age of impeachment'

6h ago Sekulow appears to address Bolton's allegations

7h ago Impeachment trial resumes amid questions over Bolton testimony

6m ago 11:41 Biden campaign on Trump defense: ‘We didn’t realize that Breitbart was expanding into Ted Talk knockoffs’

Joe Biden’s campaign has responded to allegations by Trump’s defense team that he pushed for the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor to benefit his son.

The Biden campaign’s rapid-response director Andrew Bates said in a statement to reporters that Trump’s defense was pushing a “conspiracy theory” that “has been conclusively refuted”:

The New York Times calls it ‘debunked,’ The Wall Street Journal calls it ‘discredited,’ the AP calls it ‘incorrect,’ and The Washington Post Fact Checker calls it ‘a fountain of falsehoods.’ The diplomat that Trump himself appointed to lead his Ukraine policy has blasted it as ‘self serving’ and ‘not credible.’ Joe Biden was instrumental to a bipartisan and international anti-corruption victory. It’s no surprise that such a thing is anathema to President Trump.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/jan/27/donald-trump-impeachment-trial-john-bolton-book-news-today-senate-democrats