Dershowitz says his Trump impeachment defense distorted
LISA MASCARO, ERIC TUCKER and ZEKE MILLER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz now says his headline-dominating argument against impeaching the president has been distorted.
Meanwhile, Trump's Senate trial headed into a final day of questions and answers before a vote on whether or not to call witnesses — a decision that could send the proceedings to weeks of further action or a relatively abrupt acquittal.
In a day-after tweet, Dershowitz complained Thursday about the portrayal of his testimony Wednesday night that a president, if he believes his re-election is in the "national interest," is essentially immune from impeachment for actions in support of that idea.
That argument left even some of Trump's top allies backing away