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US Republicans seem ready to turn page on Trump after voting to acquit him
Feb 16, 2021 17:49Nikki R. Haley, a former United Nations ambassador under President Donald J. Trump who left the administration without the drama or ill will that marred most of its high-level departures, sharply criticized her former boss in an interview published recently, saying that she was “disgusted” by his conduct on Jan. 6, the day of the Capitol riot.
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Seven Republican rebels who voted to convict feel Trumpists' fury
Feb 16, 2021 17:46The seven Republican senators who broke ranks by voting to convict former president Donald Trump at his impeachment trial faced immediate hostility and criticism from fellow conservatives revealing the potentially high cost of opposing Trumpism within the Republican party.
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White supremacy and American policing
Feb 13, 2021 05:57The assault on the U.S. Capitol has drawn attention to the presence of far-right extremists in the U.S. military and law enforcement. While the Pentagon has taken steps to address the problem, the police chiefs will have a much harder time rooting out extremism in their departments.
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Why GOP argument against trying Trump is so dangerous
Feb 10, 2021 20:15As the Senate trial of former US President Donald Trump nears, the defense is coming into view. It appears that most Senate Republicans will not defend Trump’s conduct around the Jan. 6 Capitol siege. Instead, they will rally around an argument about the chamber’s constitutional powers and the supposedly dangerous consequences for US politics if the Senate tries a “late impeachment.”
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Pushing QAnon and stolen election lies, Flynn re-emerges
Feb 08, 2021 17:43In Washington’s respectable circles, Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser, is a discredited and dishonored ex-general, a once-esteemed military intelligence officer who went off the rails ideologically and then was fired a mere 24 days into the Trump administration for lying to the F.B.I. about contacts with the Russian ambassador.
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Donald Trump hires new impeachment defense team after lead lawyers quit
Feb 02, 2021 20:42Donald Trump has named new lawyers to lead the defense at his impeachment trial in the Senate next week on the charge that he unleashed a deadly insurrection upon the US Capitol on 6 January. The announcement comes just a day after his previous team fell apart.
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Trump parts ways with five lawyers handling impeachment defense
Feb 02, 2021 20:33Former US President Donald J. Trump has abruptly parted ways with five lawyers handling his impeachment defense, just over a week before the Senate trial is set to begin, people familiar with the situation said on recently.
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US Senate Republicans say Trump should be held accountable for riot, but not by them
Feb 01, 2021 16:01With the impeachment trial for former US President, Donald Trump set to begin on February 9, Senate Republicans are criticizing him without doing anything about his actions, hoping to put distance between themselves and the former president without casting any votes that could cause a backlash from Trump and his fervent supporters. Many say something should be done about what Trump did – but just not by them.
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Republican leaders to meet with Marjorie Taylor Greene amid calls for removal
Feb 01, 2021 15:56Republican Party leaders will meet with extremist Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene next week as an ongoing crisis over her racist and bizarre political views continues to roil American politics.
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At least 30,000 GOP voters have left the party since the Capitol breach
Feb 01, 2021 15:53Since the attack on the United States Capitol building by a mob of loyalists to former President Donald Trump, tens of thousands of voters who were previously registered as members of the Republican Party have changed their affiliation away from the GOP.