US President Donald Trump, who is facing an impeachment trial in the Senate over allegations that he improperly pushed Ukraine to investigate respected Senator Joe Biden, is facing a new hurdle, namely an associate of his own lawyer Rudy Giuliani, has given damning written testimony that Trump knew exactly what he was doing. This contradicts Giuliani’s own evidence that Trump was “completely innocent”. The associate, who has not been named, has allegedly produced tapes incriminating the President.
The President is accused of threatening to withhold military assistance from Ukraine unless its President agreed to prosecute Senator Biden and his son for crookedness. However, it is believed that Trump acted spitefully out of a desire to harm the only Democrat contender for the White House whom he fears.
While the GOP holds a majority of seats in the Senate, and it is unlikely that the Democrats could muster the two-thirds majority they need to find the President guilty, there have been fears in the Republican party that the new evidence could persuade some honest Senators in their party to vote in accordance with the evidence, rather than to simply whitewash a President from their own party.
However, Trump’s advisors have pulled a rabbit out of the hat. They will rely on the defence of stupidity, namely that the President was too stupid to have known what he was talking about.
It is widely accepted that the 73-year old President has difficulty speaking and writing English, hence his use of pre-school phrases, short sentences and poor or no sentence structure. While he can articulate monosyllabic words like “good” or “bad”, it is thought that he may not truly understand them, and he certainly doesn’t understand complex words like “intelligent” or “untruthful”.
The stupidity defence, along with the defence of attorney-client privilege, could keep Trump out of prison and in the Oval Office, at least until the end of this year.
