USA: Trump lawyer dubs impeachment 'hell' and 'tantamount to domestic war'

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W/S Trump impeachment lawyer Ken Starr approaches podium, Washington DC
SOT, Kenneth Starr, Trump impeachment lawyer: "Like war, impeachment is hell, or at least presidential impeachment is hell. Those of us who lived through the Clinton impeachment, including members of this body, full well understand that a presidential impeachment is tantamount to domestic war, albeit thankfully protected by our beloved first amendment, a war of words and a war of ideas. But it's filled with acrimony and it divides the country like nothing else, those of us who lived through the Clinton impeachment understand that in a deep and personal way."
SOT, Kenneth Starr, Trump impeachment lawyer: "And I respectfully submit that the Senate, in its wisdom, would do well in its deliberations to guide the nation in this world's greatest deliberative body, to return to our country's traditions when presidential impeachment was truly a measure of last resort."
SOT, Kenneth Starr, Trump impeachment lawyer: "The very divisive Clinton impeachment demonstrates that, while highly relevant, the commission of a crime is by no means sufficient to warrant the removal of our duly elected president."
SOT, Kenneth Starr, Trump impeachment lawyer: "We will all agree that the presidents under the text of the Constitution and its amendments are to serve out their term absent a genuine national consensus reflected by the two thirds majority requirement of this court that the president must go away."*BUG AT SOURCE*
SOT, Kenneth Starr, Trump impeachment lawyer: "This body should signal to the nation the return to our traditions, bipartisan impeachments."
SOT, Kenneth Starr, Trump impeachment lawyer: "So I respectfully submit that the Senate should close this chapter, this idiosyncratic chapter on this increasingly disruptive act, this era, this age and resort to the Constitution's ultimate Democratic weapon for the presidency. Let the people decide."
W/S Trump impeachment lawyer Ken Starr leaving podium
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A member of US President Donald Trump's defence team said that impeachment was "hell" and "tantamount to domestic war," as the impeachment trial continued in the US Senate in Washington DC on Monday.
"Like war, impeachment is hell," lawyer Kenneth Starr told senators. "It's filled with acrimony and divides the country like nothing else. Those of us who lived through the Clinton impeachment understand that in a deep and personal way."
Starr was a central figure in the investigation that led to former President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial in 1998.
On Monday revelations emerged from a draft for an upcoming book by former US National Security Advisor John Bolton, who alleges that Trump stated he was withholding military aid from Ukraine in exchange for political favours.
The Bolton allegations have led Senate Democrats to urge Republicans to join them in voting for him to be called as a witness in the ongoing impeachment trial.