Washington, Jan 20 (AFP/APP): Donald Trump’s defenders and supporters skirmished over the airwaves on Sunday a day after the US president’s legal team dismissed his impeachment trial as unconstitutional and dangerous. Coming two days before Trump’s trial opens in the Senate, the clashing arguments offered an early taste of the historic drama to play out in coming weeks. Beginning Tuesday, the chamber will meet six hours a day for six days a week in only the third impeachment trial of a US president, with lofty constitutional issues brushing up against raw partisan politics. It will be a “grueling exercise,” Republican Senator John Cornyn said on CBS. Celebrity attorney Alan Dershowitz, a recent addition to Trump’s legal team, argued Sunday that even if every charge sent by the House to the Senate for the president’s trial were accepted as true, it would not rise to the level of impeachable behavior. “The (House) vote was to impeach on abuse of power, which is not within the constitutional criteria for impeachment, and obstruction of Congress,” Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor emeritus, said on ABC. A politically motivated impeachment, he added, was the “greatest nightmare” of the country’s founders. Adam Schiff, the California lawmaker … Continue reading Trump backers and critics clash as impeachment trial nears