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January 29, 202023,20 One of Trump's defenders, attorney Dershowitz, in the impeachment process in the Senate, argues that any action taken by the president to help a reelection is "public interest". "If the president does something he thinks helps him to be elected, in the public interest, this cannot be the quid pro quo that motivates the impeachment," he said referring to the decision to make military aid in Kiev conditional on the opening of a Biden investigation. "Even if the allegations were true, Trump's behavior would have been appropriate."