- Trump’s lawyers misspelled the country’s name in its most recent impeachment defense document.
- They say “United States” instead of “United States”.
- The lawyers were hired a few days ago after Trump’s original impeachment team left.
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Former President Donald Trump’s impeachment lawyers mistakenly spelled the name of the country they were in on Tuesday, filling out a document that addressed “Members of the United States Senate.”
The typo was at the top of a 14-page document filed before Trump’s impeachment trial in United State Senate. He argued that the impeachment of a former president would be unconstitutional, although the Senate has already impeached several public officials who have left office.
The country is called the United States, not the United States.
Donald Trump
Trump – who when he had a Twitter account frequently made bizarre spelling mistakes and had erroneous capitalization and punctuation errors – disdains typographical errors.
According to an Axios report, he said it was “very embarrassing” that Sidney Powell, the conspiracy lawyer who falsely claimed conspiracy theories to explain Trump’s 2020 electoral defeat, spelled “district” as “district” and “district “in a process that challenges electoral results.
“That was very embarrassing. It shouldn’t have happened,” said Trump, according to Axios.
The lawyers who filed the petition on Trump’s behalf, David Schoen and Bruce Castor Jr., had little time to compile the document. Their signings were announced on Saturday, shortly after all other members of the Trump team withdrew.
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Schoen and Castor argued in the brief that the Senate “lacks jurisdiction to dismiss a man who does not hold office”, although there is ample precedent for him to do just that. They also argued that Trump’s conspiracy theories, claiming that the 2020 election was rigged, which led to an uprising and riot in the Capitol building that left five people dead, was not an impeachable offense.
The House of Representatives accused Trump in January of inciting an insurrection. On Tuesday, impeachment administrators filed their own petition, arguing against the idea that any president could obtain a free pass from Congress in the last days of his presidency.
“There is no ‘January exception’ for impeachment or any other provision of the Constitution,” said the report by the impeachment administrators. “A president must answer comprehensively for his conduct in office, from the first day to the last.”