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Donald Trump is refusing to testify at his impeachment trial after House impeachment managers requested his appearance. Trump spokesperson Jason Miller said the former president “will not testify in an unconstitutional proceeding,” the same argument many Republican lawmakers have made in the lead up to the trial. But Trump’s refusal to testify is sure to anger House impeachment managers, who have argued that Trump needs to testify under oath. From Politico: In a letter to Trump earlier Thursday, the House’s lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said Trump’s testimony was necessary because his lawyers’ first official response to the impeachment charge “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,” Raskin wrote. “In light of your disputing these factual allegations, I write to invite you to provide testimony...

  US President  Joe Biden  urged his fellow members of the Democratic Party in the Senate to keep former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial in the upper chamber short and not to let it "derail the agenda". According to The Hill, Biden has never embraced Trump's second impeachment though he hasn't sought to stand in its way either amid outrage in his party over the former president's involvement in the January 6 riots at the Capitol. Biden administration officials and allies close to the White House say the president will distance himself from Trump's trial as it begins in the second week of February "He's going to let the Senate do what it needs to do," said one Biden ally close to the White House as quoted by The Hill and added, "We always knew this was going to happen. We always knew this would be the position we're in now with Republicans. And now he's going to respect the process and let it play out." It is rep...