Section: US & Canada
The Next Phase of Donald Trump
President Donald Trump has survived the latest and most serious crisis of his own making. As ever, he seems to have learned nothing from the ordeal.The Republican-controlled Senate voted today to keep Trump in office. Breaking with his party, Senator Mitt Romney of Utah cast the lone Republican vote convicting Trump of one of the two impeachment...
23 Dangerous Propositions the Senate Just Ratified
The Senate today voted largely along party lines to acquit President Donald Trump on two articles of impeachment. The acquittal, in the simplest sense, is a declaration that the House of Representatives failed to prove its case. But it is also a statement of values by the Senate—an embrace of certain basic propositions about the president’s...
White House Official: China Should Join Nuclear Arms Talks With Russia
U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser said Wednesday that China should join the United States in trilateral arms talks with Russia. “The president believes that it shouldn’t just be the U.S. and Russia. We think that China is going to need to become involved in any serious arms control negotiation, so we’re...
Senate Acquits Trump Leaving The Presidency Unbound And Unaccountable
The Senate voted Wednesday to acquit President Trump of charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress related to his Ukraine conduct, bringing to an end a fast-tracked two-week impeachment trial. The vote for conviction was ultimately bipartisan, robbing Trump and Republicans of a key talking point, while those voting for acquittal were...
Senate Votes To Acquit Trump on All Charges
The Senate on Wednesday acquitted President Donald Trump of both impeachment charges, ending a monthslong battle that did little more than clarify the intense polarization between Democrats and Republicans in Congress and around the country. Trump was impeached by the House in December for abuse of power over his role in attempting to pressure...
Senate Republicans Admit Trump Did It But Vote to Acquit Him Anyway
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos GettyDuring the last four months, congressional Democrats pored over thousands of pages of evidence, listened to dozens of hours of testimony and compiled a 300-page at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
US Senate Acquits Trump of Both Impeachment Charges
The U.S. Senate predictably cleared President Donald Trump on Wednesday of charges that he pressured Ukraine for political favors — with one lone Republican, Senator Mitt Romney, voting against. Democrats fell far short of winning the needed 67 votes to convict the president of abuse of power, the first charge, followed by a second on obstruction...
Hannity Was Set To Play Early Role In Response To Impeachment Inquiry
Fox News host Sean Hannity was set to play an early role in the response to President Trump’s impeachment inquiry. TPM obtained text messages between Lev Parnas and a Fox News producer and booker as they attempted to arrange an interview between Hannity and Viktor Shokin, a disgraced Ukrainian prosecutor with an axe to grind against Joe...
New Evidence Shows Pressure Campaign Started Earlier With Prior Ukraine Prez
As the Senate votes to acquit President Trump over his bid to extort the Ukrainian government into providing him with domestic political help, TPM has new evidence suggesting that the pressure campaign came far closer to succeeding and at an earlier stage than was previously known. Months before President Trump pressured Ukrainian leader...
Sen. Romney breaks with GOP, will vote to convict Trump
WASHINGTON — Utah Sen. Mitt Romney said Wednesday he will vote to convict President Donald Trump, becoming the first and likely only Republican to break ranks in the Senate’s impeachment trial and favour removing Trump from office. In a remarkable spectacle, Romney’s decision meant the GOP’s unsuccessful 2012 presidential...
