Section: Independent Online (South Africa)
Donald Trump’s impeachment trial could end soon
Washington — Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee will oppose calling more witnesses in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, all but dashing Democratic efforts to hear more testimony and boosting odds the Senate will vote imminently to acquit without new testimony, in a matter of days. Republican Senator Susan Collins of...
Donald Trump impeachment trial: Democrats, Republicans brace for battle over witnesses
Washington – President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial resumed on Thursday for a second day of questioning by U.S. senators before they address the explosive issue of whether to call witnesses such as former national security adviser John Bolton. Without witnesses, Republicans, who control the Senate, say the trial could end as early...
‘President is danger to US’: Democrats push for witnesses in Donald Trump impeachment trial
Washington – The U.S. Senate is expected to wrap up the initial phase of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial before turning on Friday to the explosive question of whether to call witnesses such as former national security adviser John Bolton. Republicans, who control the Senate, said there was a chance the trial could end on...
Impeachment trial: Donald Trump launches scathing attack on John Bolton
Washington – President Donald Trump unleashed his sharpest attack yet on John Bolton after his former national security adviser depicted Trump as playing a central role in a politically motivated pressure campaign on Ukraine, as the U.S. Senate prepared on Wednesday to enter a new phase in the president’s impeachment trial. Senators...
Donald Trump lawyers to wrap up defence as impeachment trial intensifies
Washington – Lawyers for President Donald Trump were set on Tuesday to wrap up their arguments urging acquittal in his U.S. Senate trial after making the case that explosive allegations by former national security adviser John Bolton – even if true – do not represent an impeachable offense. The impeachment trial has been roiled...
Donald Trump’s lawyers start impeachment defence but steer clear of Bolton book
Washington – President Donald Trump’s legal team is raising a broad-based attack on the impeachment case against him even as it mostly brushes past allegations in a new book that could undercut a key defense argument at his Senate trial. Former national security adviser John Bolton writes in a manuscript that Trump wanted to withhold...
Impeachment Trial: 5 times Donald Trump and his lawyers got the facts wrong
Washington — President Donald Trump stated falsely Monday that House Democrats never called his former national security adviser to testify in their impeachment inquiry. Actually they did. Trump’s tweet about John Bolton came as the Senate entered the second week of the impeachment trial, where his defense team stretched the facts on...
Donald Trump impeachment could impact the control of US Senate
Washington – President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial may not result in his removal from office, but it could help determine whether his Republicans retain control of the Senate in the November congressional elections. For the handful of senators who face tough re-election battles this year, their vote to acquit or convict Trump, or...
Donald Trump claims John Bolton lied about Ukraine aid to boost book sales
Moscow – US President Donald Trump said on Monday that claims made by former US National Security Adviser John Bolton about how the release of military aid for Ukraine was made conditional on the latter’s investigation into the Democratic Party were a mere ploy to sell his book. The New York Times newspaper reported on Sunday, citing...
Defense at impeachment trial says removing Donald Trump would be ‘very dangerous’
Washington – Lawyers for US President Donald Trump told his Senate impeachment trial on Saturday that Democrats’ efforts to remove the president from office would set a “very, very dangerous” precedent in an election year. White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, the head of the defense team, told Senators they would be denying...
