White House "press secretary" Stephanie Grisham, who may or may not be a crisis actor hired on for three hours a week or Andy Kaufman doing a bit from beyond the grave, is out with the official Trump White House response to impeachment.
It's not worth more than a cursory going-over, because Stephanie Grisham is a propagandist working against the interests of this nation. She is a liar. The brief statement is a rehash of Team Trump burnings on "this sham, illegitimate impeachment process," the claim that the House Speaker "lied," and an attack on the House for holding the articles of impeachment over the holidays rather than letting the corrupt McConnell punt them into the Atlantic the day after the House vote. It claims Trump was denied "due process" by the House—when in fact the House had been asking the White House to participate every step of the way. White House lawyers were invited to appear and argue their case; the White House refused. Trump was invited to produce witnesses who could rebut the charges—not only did the White House refuse, Trump's team issued a blanket order forbidding any of his team with direct knowledge from testifying.
The tactical pause in sending impeachment articles to the Senate has already proven its value. Over the holidays and into January, new evidence has continued to come out both confirming the details of the effort to extort the Ukrainian government into opening an "investigation" of one of Trump's political enemies, highlighting Trump's "lawyer" Rudy Giuliani's role not only in that bit of election manipulation but in the efforts of a set of corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs to sabotage the current Ukrainian government, and adding astonishing new hints that the team may have contemplated violent acts against the U.S. ambassador they saw as blocking their efforts.
All of this is information that Sen. Mitch McConnell and Trump's other Senate allies had intended to render moot with a quick, no-witnesses, no-arguments nullification of the House charges. McConnell was quite open in stating his intentions. He publicly bragged about it.
The House thwarted that plan with the holiday delay. Now that House impeachment investigators have a much clearer picture of how the Senate intends to comport itself, how far Republican senators are willing to go to block evidence, and how unstable McConnell's protection of Trump's extortion racket truly is, in the face of ever-expanding evidence confirming the White House scheme, it has named impeachment managers best equipped to present the House case in those circumstances.
That does not mean anyone in the nation can convince current Republican lawmakers to condemn Trump's plain abuses of the office or prod them into not being active accomplices to corrupt acts. There is no Republican voice—and certainly, not even a single person in the White House itself—not working to assist Trump in getting away with his every profit-seeking and Constitution-bending act. But the House is not going to allow those crimes to be brushed aside so easily. History, at least, will know damn well what each Republican lawmaker stood for, and defended.