With the final gavel banging down on impeachment, US President Donald Trump barrelled ahead in his re-election fight with a united Republican Party behind him, and emboldened by reassuring poll numbers and chaos in the Democratic race to replace him.Republican senators voted largely in lockstep to acquit Trump, relying on a multitude of rationales for keeping him in office: he’s guilty, but his conduct wasn’t impeachable; his July telephone conversation with Ukraine’s president was a “perfect… …read more
Source:: South China Morning Post
