President Donald Trump's lawyers opened their impeachment trial defense on Saturday by asserting that he "did absolutely nothing wrong" when he asked Ukraine to investigate a political rival, Joe Biden. They accused Democratic prosecutors of omitting key evidence when they presented their case.
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