特朗普的法律辩护团队周一提交了一份官方辩护简报，称总统面临“被操纵的”弹劾程序，并且“绝对没有做错任何事”
这份长达110页的文件呼应了总统及其支持者长期以来提出的类似论点，尽管它给他们带来了更具法律色彩的语气。
总统的法律团队写道:“众议院民主党人从一开始就决心找到某种方式——任何方式——来腐败弹劾的非凡权力，将其用作推翻2016年选举结果和干涉2020年选举的政治工具。”。"所有这些都是对宪法的危险曲解，参议院应该迅速而全面地予以谴责。"
特朗普的律师呼吁参议院“迅速驳回”针对总统的案件，称他在众议院调查中面临“操纵程序”。他们将弹劾描述为“无耻的政治行为”，辩称众议院批准的条款并不构成可弹劾的罪行。
唐纳德·特朗普总统于1月19日在德克萨斯州奥斯汀举行的美国农业局联合会年会暨贸易展上发表讲话
白宫完全驳回了众议院的弹劾调查，认为这是“非法的”和纯粹的“党派性的”特朗普政府命令官员不要作证，并拒绝向众议院调查人员移交重要证据。但是现在弹劾已经提交参议院进行审判，总统提出了辩护。
特朗普的律师周六在最初的六页辩护备忘录中写道:“这是一次厚颜无耻的非法企图，目的是推翻2016年选举的结果，干涉2020年选举——现在距离选举只有几个月了。”。
周日在美国广播公司讲话本周和美国有线电视新闻网联盟状况艾伦·德肖维茨将成为特朗普的辩护团队的一员，辩称即使总统采取了弹劾条款中规定的所有行动，他也不应该被免职。
“国会弹劾这两篇文章是错误的，”这位退休的哈佛法学教授告诉记者本周。“它们不是弹劾条款。弹劾条款是两项非犯罪行为，”他说，他认为总统必须犯下明确的罪行才能被弹劾。
然而，一些人很快注意到，在弹劾前总统比尔·克林顿的过程中，德绍维茨提出了完全相反的论点在1998年的一次采访中。他告诉我拉里·金现场直播在那一年的8月份，如果总统是“彻底腐蚀办公室的人”，那么可弹劾的罪行“不一定是犯罪”
9月25日，在联合国大会期间，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在纽约会见乌克兰总统沃洛季米尔·泽兰斯基时发表讲话
特朗普在12月成为美国历史上第三位被众议院弹劾的总统。他因两项罪名被弹劾，“滥用权力”和“阻挠国会”，投票通过了党派路线。
“滥用权力”的指控源于总统向乌克兰施压，要求乌克兰宣布对毫无根据的指控进行调查，指控前副总统乔拜登(Joe Biden)对乌克兰采取腐败行为，以利于其儿子亨特(Hunter)在乌克兰的商业往来，以及民主党与乌克兰人合作干涉2016年总统选举的被揭穿的阴谋论。民主党人声称特朗普试图伤害他的政治对手，特别是因为拜登是民主党总统提名的领先者。
由于白宫拒绝配合民主党领导的对乌克兰丑闻的调查，白宫还通过了第二项弹劾条款“阻挠国会”
但是特朗普和他的支持者驳回了这两篇文章，辩称总统没有做错什么，只是希望乌克兰调查涉嫌腐败的事件。
TRUMP'S LEGAL TEAM SAYS PRESIDENT DID 'ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG,' ARGUES CHARGES AREN'T IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES
Trump's legal defense team on Monday submitted an official defense brief, arguing that the president had faced a "rigged" impeachment process and has done "absolutely nothing wrong."
The 110-page document echoed similar arguments long made by the president and his supporters, although it presented them with a more legal tone.
"House Democrats were determined from the outset to find some way—any way—to corrupt the extraordinary power of impeachment for use as a political tool to overturn the result of the 2016 election and to interfere in the 2020 election," the president's legal team wrote. "All of that is a dangerous perversion of the Constitution that the Senate should swiftly and roundly condemn."
Trump's lawyers called on the Senate to "swiftly reject" the case against the president, arguing that he'd faced a "rigged process" in the House inquiry. They described the impeachment as a "brazenly political act," arguing that the articles approved by the House did not constitute impeachable offenses.
President Donald Trump speaks at the American Farm Bureau Federation Annual Convention and Trade Show in Austin, Texas on January 19
The White House dismissed the impeachment inquiry in the House of Representatives entirely, arguing that it was "illegitimate" and purely "partisan." Trump's administration ordered officials not to testify and refused to hand over significant evidence to House investigators. But now that the impeachment has moved to the Senate for a trial, the president has put forward a defense.
"This is a brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and interfere with the 2020 election - now just months away," Trump's lawyers wrote in an initial six-page defense memo on Saturday.
Speaking on Sunday to ABC's This Week and CNN's State of the Union, Alan Dershowitz, who will be part of Trump's defense team, argued that the president should not be removed even if he did all the actions laid out in the articles of impeachment.
"Congress was wrong in impeaching for these two articles," the retired Harvard law professor told This Week. "They are not articles of impeachment. The articles of impeachment are two non-criminal actions," he said, arguing that the president must commit an explicit crime to be impeached.
However, some were quick to note that Dershowitz made precisely the opposite argument during the impeachment proceedings for former president Bill Clinton in a 1998 interview. He told Larry King Live in August of that year that an impeachable offense "doesn't have to be a crime" if the president is "somebody who completely corrupts the office."
President Donald Trump speaks as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky looks on during a meeting in New York on September 25, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly
Trump became the third president in U.S. history to be impeached by the House of Representatives in December. He was impeached on two counts, "Abuse of Power" and "Obstruction of Congress," in a vote that passed along partisan lines.
The "Abuse of Power" indictment came as a result of the president's efforts to pressure Ukraine to announce investigations into unfounded allegations that former Vice President Joe Biden acted corruptly toward Ukraine to benefit his son Hunter's business dealings there, and into a debunked conspiracy theory that Democrats worked with Ukrainians to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. Democrats allege that Trump was attempting to damage his political rivals, particularly as Biden was the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination.
As the White House refused to cooperate with the Democratic-led inquiry in the Ukraine scandal, the House also passed the second article of impeachment for "Obstruction of Congress."
But Trump and his supporters have dismissed both articles, arguing that the president did nothing wrong and simply wanted Ukraine to investigate the alleged corruption.
