Trump lawyers misspell ‘United States’ in impeachment brief

• Trump’s lawyers misspelled the country’s name in their latest impeachment defense brief.
• They say “United States” instead of “United States”.
• The lawyers were hired just days ago after Trump’s initial impeachment team resigned.
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Lawyers for the impeachment of former President Donald Trump misspelled the name of the country they were in on Tuesday, filing a document addressed to “members of the United States Senate.”

The typo was at the top of a 14-page brief filed ahead of Trump’s impeachment trial in the United State Senate. He argued that impeaching a former president would be unconstitutional, even though the Senate has previously indicted several officials who left office.

Trump – who, when he had a Twitter account, frequently made bizarre misspellings and had erratic capitalization and punctuation errors – scorned typographical errors.

According to a report by Axios, he said it was “very embarrassing” that Sidney Powell, the conspiratorial lawyer who falsely alleged conspiracy theories to explain Trump’s electoral loss in 2020, called a “district” of “districct” and “distrcoict” in a lawsuit challenging the Election Results.

“It was very embarrassing. It shouldn’t have happened,” Trump said, according to Axios.

The attorneys who filed the brief on Trump’s behalf, David Schoen and Bruce Castor Jr., had little time to prepare the document. Their hires were announced on Saturday, shortly after all other members of Trump’s team left.

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Schoen and Castor argued in the brief that the Senate “does not have the jurisdiction to remove a man who does not hold office”, although there are many precedents for doing just that. They also argued that Trump’s conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was rigged, which led to an insurgency and a riot on Capitol Hill that left five people dead, was not an impenetrable offense.

The House of Representatives accused Trump in January of inciting an insurgency. His impeachment officials filed their own brief on Tuesday, arguing against the idea that any president could get a free pass from Congress in the dying days of his presidency.

“There is no” January exception “to impeachment or any other provision of the Constitution,” said the brief of those responsible for the indictment. “A president must be fully accountable for his conduct in office from his first day in office until the last.”