(GNB Desk): Today, Lead Impeachment Manager Jamie Raskin sent a letter to former President Donald Trump requesting that former President Donald Trump testify under oath in his upcoming impeachment trial in the Senate either before or during the Senate impeachment trial, about his conduct on January 6.. A Trump adviser said the former president declined.
Lead impeachment manager Jamie Raskin asked in a letter sent by email Thursday that the former president testify “either before or during” the trial that begins in earnest on February 9.
In the letter, Lead Manager Raskin wrote, “Two days ago, you filed an Answer in which you denied many factual allegations set forth in the article of impeachment. You have thus attempted to put critical facts at issue notwithstanding the clear and overwhelming evidence of your constitutional offense,” the letter from Lead Manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., began, referring to Trump’s legal team’s response to their legal brief laying out the change for “incitement of insurrection. In light of your disputing these factual allegations, I write to invite you to provide testimony under oath, either before or during the Senate impeachment trial, concerning your conduct on January 6, 2021, We would propose that you provide your testimony (of course including cross-examination) as early as Monday, February 8, 2021, and not later than Thursday, February 11, 2021. We would be pleased to arrange such testimony at a mutually convenient time and place.”
“If you decline this invitation, we reserve any and all rights, including the right to establish at trial that your refusal to testify supports a strong adverse inference regarding your actions (and inaction) on January 6, 2021,” Raskin said.
Jason Miller, the Trump adviser, said the former president “will not testify in an unconstitutional proceeding.” Hours later, Trump attorneys Bruce Castor and David Schoen said Raskin’s letter proved Democrats “cannot prove your allegations” and that an impeachment trial was too serious “to try to play these games.”
Trump is charged with inciting a mob of supporters that broke into the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
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