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Can ‘Never Trump’ Republicans gain party control – or is it a lost cause?
May 17, 2021 15:02The purging of Liz Cheney from Republican leadership in the House of Representatives did not even go to a secret ballot. Instead a voice vote was all it took to confirm the party’s capitulation to Donald Trump and his “big lie” about a stolen election.
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Liz Cheney says McCarthy should testify about Trump’s views on Capitol attack
May 16, 2021 09:25US Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney has said that several GOP members of Congress had voted against impeaching former US President Donald Trump out of fear for their own lives.
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Republicans gear up to oust Liz Cheney as punishment for criticizing Trump
May 12, 2021 16:23Infighting within the Republican Party is set to come to a head this week, goaded on by the ghostly figure of former President Donald Trump in his Mar-a-Lago hideout in Florida. House Republicans are gearing up to oust Liz Cheney on Wednesday (May 12) from her position as the party’s number three leader in the chamber.
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House Republicans have had enough of Liz Cheney’s truth-telling
May 07, 2021 10:50The first time defenders of Donald J. Trump came for Representative Liz Cheney, for the offense of having voted to impeach him, fellow Republicans closed ranks to save her leadership post, with Representative Kevin McCarthy boasting that their “big tent” party had enough room for both the former president and a stalwart critic.
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Bush: ‘Anglo-Saxon’ ideals show pro-Trump Republicans ‘want to be extinct’
May 03, 2021 15:47Ahead of a special election on Saturday (May 01, 2021) to replace a Texas congressman who died after contracting COVID-19, former President George W Bush said the ascendancy of supporters of Donald Trump suggest Republicans “want to be extinct”.
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Florida governor says Biden created 'catastrophe' at US border by scrapping Trump's policies
Apr 21, 2021 09:27A Republican representative from Kansas's 1st congressional district wrote on twitter that "migrant children have been traumatized and been taken advantage of by Mexican cartels, adding, “These cartels are making hundreds of millions of dollars every day by exploiting children. Under the Biden Administration, cartels are the winners, and innocent children are the losers.”
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Capitol police knew Trump’s mob would attack Congress but were unprepared anyway
Apr 20, 2021 16:41Capitol Police knew ahead of January 6 that Congress itself was the target of the Donald Trump-fueled mob that violently breached the Capitol, but the police department’s leaders ignored warnings and were thoroughly unprepared for the mob, a new report from the department’s watchdog has found.
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Fauci admits PPE shortages under Trump increased COVID death toll of frontline healthcare workers
Apr 15, 2021 18:32Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert in the U.S., admitted in an interview with The Guardian recently that major shortages of masks, gloves, and other personal protective equipment under the Trump administration contributed to the deaths of more than 3,600 healthcare workers during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Khanna criticizes Biden for proposing Pentagon budget larger than Trump's
Apr 11, 2021 08:40US Congressman Ro Khanna of California was the first House Democrat to speak out against President Joe Biden's request for a $715 billion Pentagon budget for Fiscal Year 2022, an increase from the current $704 billion level approved under former President Donald Trump.
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Biden plans Afghanistan train wreck
Apr 06, 2021 14:30Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump both increased the number of American personnel in Afghanistan before reducing them. Moreover, Biden, despite joining his predecessor in criticizing “endless wars,” never committed to implementing the peace accord. Withdrawing quickly would be the only proper response, ending American involvement in Afghanistan’s endless war.