Trump explicitly rejected a request from House Democrats. Jason Miller, a spokesperson for the former president, said Trump “will not testify in an unconstitutional proceeding,” echoing the central theme of Trump’s defense in the trial.

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.”

Bruce Castor and David Schoen, Trump’s lawyers for the trial, called Raskin’s letter a “public relations stunt” and said it confirms that “you cannot prove your allegations” against Trump. “The use of our Constitution to bring a purported impeachment proceeding is much too serious to try to play these games,” Castor and Schoen wrote.

A senior aide on the House impeachment team said the request for Trump’s testimony came in response to claims by Castor and Schoen earlier this week that the former president never “intended to interfere with the counting of Electoral votes” on Jan. 6, and never “made any effort to subvert the certification of the results of the 2020 presidential election.”

Trump won’t testify at his second impeachment trial

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/0...achment-465923



He can hide but he cannot run .....

He's not hiding he will most likely be playing golf like last time.

Going well this impeachment is it?

Almost as well as his legal team's defence.



https://uk.yahoo.com/news/ve-practic...171155382.html

Be interesting to see what unfolds during the case. I think it will make great telly,

Yep. I know that the link i posted was to an "independent" article (and thus not as independent as one might prefer!!), but it was written by a law professor and not a journo which gives it a touch of credibility.

I don't think Trumps legal case is getting much money thrown at it any way. I wouldn't waste my money on it either now its widely understood its a complete waste of time, just like the last one.

One would imagine that the main purpose of the impeachment is to prevent trump from running again.

Exactly and the Dems know its going to fail so they are then going to try a different route by trying to censure him, which is odd because if he is acquitted for his charges for impeachment why is is convicted for the same things in another case and then censured ? Seems a bit crazy .... but there again crazy is the new norm in the USA.

If this is the Dems legal position, I think the case Trump has that looks like it was written by the office boy is still the winning one. I hope he enjoys his round of golf while its all unravelling.

The Dems are scared of Trump, thats pretty obvious. All this shows is that they are trying to rig future elections.

I suspect that there'll be a fair few republicans who'll be more than happy to let the democrats do their dirty work for them.