Washington: Former US President Donald Trump and the Grand Old Party (GOP) are at a crossroads after he was acquitted in his second impeachment. The impeachment came as a result of the January 6 riot in which dozens of Trump supporters entered the US Capitol Building, threatened lawmakers and broke windows, the Xinhua news agency … Read more
Washington: Former US President Donald Trump attacked Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, days after seven Republican senators joined all 50 Democrats in voting to convict him of inciting the deadly January 6 Capitol riot. “Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will … Read more
New York: Former US President Donald Trump has been acquitted for a second time by the Senate after Republicans overwhelmingly voted against convicting him on the charge of inciting the January 6 riot at the Capitol, but senior party leader Mitch McConnel blasted him soon afterwards for provoking it. The Senate voted 57 to 43 … Read more
New York: The second impeachment trial of former US President Donald Trump resumed on Saturday with the Senate voting to call witnesses as requested by the Democratic prosecution, upending the expectations that the process would wind up quickly. Jamie Raskin, the lead prosecutor, asked to call Republican Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler who had claimed that … Read more
New York: Former President Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial on the single charge that he incited an insurrection on January 6 at the US Capitol begins Tuesday afternoon at 1 p.m. and is likely to consume Washington for a little over a week. Trump’s first impeachment trial, in which he was acquitted on charges … Read more
Washington: The US Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has passed a resolution pre-emptively denying any potential re-admission applications by former President Donald Trump. The resolution, passed in a Zoom video-conference on Saturday by the union’s National Board, cites the same concerns that prompted the initial disciplinary charges against Trump, “notably his … Read more
Washington: Former US President Donald Trump will not testify under oath voluntarily for the Senate impeachment trial set to start next week, Trump’s legal team has said, calling the House Democrats’ request for Trump testifying a “stunt”. “We are in receipt of your latest public relations stunt,” Trump’s attorneys Bruce Castor and David Schoen wrote … Read more
Miami: A helipad at former US President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida’s Palm Beach town built for use during his time in office, will soon be demolished, according to a media report. The report published on Wednesday by the Palm Beach Daily News said that “a permit was pulled on Tuesday for demolition of … Read more
Washington: A group of House Democrats and former President Donald Trump’s lawyers respectively filed legal briefs in an impeachment case. The Democrats, known as the impeachment managers, accused Trump of inciting the chaotic and deadly violence on the US Capitol last month while urging the US Senate to convict him and bar him from holding office … Read more
San Francisco: The independent Facebook Oversight Board is asking the public to submit their feedback whether the decision by the social network to suspend former US President Donald Trump’s accounts for an indefinite period after the Capitol chaos on January 6 was right. The two Trump posts in question include the one-minute video he posted to … Read more