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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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Six GOP senators join Dems to declare Trump impeachment constitutional
Feb 10, 2021 07:01Six Republican senators have crossed party lines to vote in favor of the constitutionality of former President Donald Trump’s 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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Trump impeachment is ‘partisan farce’; ‘zero chance’ of conviction: Rand Paul
Feb 08, 2021 09:04US Republican Senator Rand Paul has said the upcoming impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump has "zero chance" that he will be convicted, describing it as a "partisan farce."
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Trump funneled donor funds into private business after election loss: Report
Feb 07, 2021 09:06Former US President Donald Trump has moved thousands of dollars from his donors into his private business after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden.
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Trump rejects surprise call to testify in his impeachment trial
Feb 05, 2021 09:44Donald Trump’s lawyers have rejected a surprise request from the House impeachment managers for the former president to testify at his impeachment trial in the US Senate next week.
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US far-right Proud Boys declared as terrorist group in Canada
Feb 04, 2021 11:35US white supremacist group, Proud Boys – one of the staunch supporters of former president Donald Trump – has officially been declared as a terrorist group in Canada.
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Trump ‘singularly responsible’ for Capitol assault, should be convicted: House
Feb 03, 2021 13:10The House of Representatives impeachment managers have filed a lengthy pretrial brief, saying former US President Donald Trump was “singularly responsible” for the assault on the Capitol last month and that he should be convicted.
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Biden admin insists on Iran’s full compliance for return to JCPOA
Feb 03, 2021 06:39The administration of newly-elected US President Joe Biden has expressed contradictory remarks about its return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, saying Tehran must make the first move and resume full compliance before Washington will be ready to rejoin the pact.
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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.