{"id":199567,"date":"2019-12-19T22:32:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T22:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/trump-cipollone-likely-to-be-main-lawyer-for-senate-impeachment-trial.html"},"modified":"2019-12-19T22:32:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T22:32:06","slug":"trump-cipollone-likely-to-be-main-lawyer-for-senate-impeachment-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/trump-cipollone-likely-to-be-main-lawyer-for-senate-impeachment-trial.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Cipollone likely to be main lawyer for Senate impeachment trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"Image_zoom\"><\/figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; President Donald Trump said on Thursday that White House lawyer Pat Cipollone is likely to be the main lawyer to represent him in the U.S. Senate\u2019s impeachment trial. <\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s lawyers are likely to argue that there is no evidence that the president did anything wrong and that the House of Representatives investigation was partisan and flawed.  <\/p>\n<p>Cipollone, a 53-year-old Republican, sent an eight-page letter to Congress in October laying out why the White House was refusing to cooperate with the House inquiry, calling it a \u201ccharade.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"Attribution_content\">Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Sandra Maler<\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~r\/Reuters\/PoliticsNews\/~3\/BAXFDbHnapU\/trump-cipollone-likely-to-be-main-lawyer-for-senate-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1YN2MY<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; President Donald Trump said on Thursday that White House lawyer Pat Cipollone is likely to be the main lawyer to represent him in the U.S. Senate\u2019s impeachment trial. Trump\u2019s lawyers are likely to argue that there is no evidence that the president did anything wrong and that the House of Representatives investigation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-199567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}