House impeachment managers demand Trump testify under oath, argue he has nothing else going on anyway

President Trump.
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Former President Donald Trump seemingly has nothing holding him back from testifying in his impeachment trial next week.

Trump will face a second impeachment trial next week after the House voted to charge him with inciting an insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6. And after Trump's legal team "denied many factual allegations" within that article of impeachment, lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) demanded in a Thursday letter that Trump clear up those discrepancies himself.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.