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Live Updates: Opening Arguments in Donald Trump Impeachment Trial

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The first day of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial ended with a vote approving the rules of resolution from Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, with some minor changes.

The US Senate is hearing opening arguments in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in Washington DC.

After both sides present their arguments, senators will have a 16-hour question-and-answer session, followed by a four-hour debate.

All votes on future motions in the trial will require a simple majority; the final vote on whether to convict the president needs a two-thirds majority of 67.

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The Donald Trump impeachment trial started on Tuesday and was mostly all about the rules that would govern the trial.

During the 12-hour-long session, the Republican-controlled Senate blocked a series of Democratic amendments to the rules resolution.

Each of the 11 measures offered by Senate Democrats, which included calls for top administration officials to testify and additional documents to be subpoenaed, was thwarted in almost all instances by the same party-line vote of 53 to 47.

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The chairman of the US House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, has accused President Donald Trump of "trying to cheat" in the 2020 election by using his powers to force Ukraine into launching investigations into Joe and Hunter Bidens.

"It was a smear tactic against a political opponent that President Trump apparently feared", Schiff claimed.

Schiff continued by alleging that Trump had ordered the entire executive branch to "obstruct" the House impeachment probe in what he described as "one of the most blatant efforts at a cover up in history".

"If not remedied by his conviction in the Senate and removal from abuse, President Trump's abuse of his office and obstruction of Congress will permanently alter the balance of power among the branches of government, inviting future presidents to operate as if they are also beyond the reach of accountability, congressional oversight and the law".

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