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1. House prosecutors: Trump pushed 'bogus Kremlin-backed conspiracy theory'

Democratic House prosecutors on Thursday outlined how they said President Trump abused his power by pressuring Ukraine to investigate Democrats and back up a "completely bogus" conspiracy theory that was being pushed by Russia and Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. On the second day of opening arguments in Trump's Senate impeachment trial, prosecution leader Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Trump attempted to boost his own re-election prospects by trying to bolster a theory that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 election. "That's what Donald Trump wanted investigated or announced — this completely bogus Kremlin-pushed conspiracy theory," Schiff said. Many Republican senators have rejected Democrats' arguments, saying Trump did nothing wrong.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.