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24 hours in, senators flout quaint impeachment rules
WASHINGTON — So much for the Senate’s quaint rules and tradition. Almost immediately after Chief Justice John Roberts gaveled in Wednesday’s session of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, bored and weary senators started openly flouting some basic guidelines in a chamber that prizes decorum. A Democrat in the back row...
After Banning Evidence, GOP Senators Have A Complaint: Dems Talk Too Much
Tierney Sneed contributed to this report. The rules of the impeachment trial are set. As of this writing, no witnesses are set to be called. No additional documentary evidence will be considered by the world’s greatest deliberative body. And cross examination? Forget about it. But one day in, Republican senators have a complaint:...
LIVE: Lead House impeachment manager Adam Schiff details blowback after Trump’s Ukraine scheme spilled out to the public
The trial is expected to last two weeks and start at 1 p.m. ET every day. It will be aired on TV and livestreamed using the Senate’s video feed. …read more Source:: Business...
Dems: Convict Trump or ‘Write the History of Our Decline with Our Own Hand’
Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/GettyHouse Democrats opened their case to remove President Trump from office by imploring the same Senate Republicans who have stood in lockstep with the White House that they’re the only ones who can save American democracy.Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the House intelligence committee chairman...
DC Claims Inaugural Committee Spending Enriched Trump Family
Donald Trump’s inaugural committee spent more than $1 million to book a ballroom at the Trump International Hotel in the nation’s capital as part of a scheme to “grossly overpay” for party space and enrich the president’s own family in the process, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday.The District of...
5 Flash Points From Impeachment Trial’s Opening Arguments
House prosecutors claimed Wednesday that President Donald Trump is trying to “cheat” to win the 2020 election, as opening arguments from each side commenced in the Senate impeachment trial of the president. The seven House Democrats who are impeachment managers, acting as prosecutors, made their case against Trump. They include House Intelligence...
‘Off the table’: Chuck Schumer torpedoes idea of Biden-Bolton impeachment witness trade
The Senate’s top Democrat said that the prospect of a trade-off agreement on calling Hunter Biden and former White House national security adviser John Bolton as impeachment trial witnesses is a no-go.Amid the heated Senate debate over calling witnesses Tuesday night, the Washington Post reported that “several Senate Democrats are...
Adam Schiff highlighted a new discrepancy in Trump’s justification for freezing military aid to Ukraine
Schiff on Wednesday ripped into Trump’s “assortment of shifting explanations” for freezing roughly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine. …read more Source:: Business...
Glenn Beck: Adam Schiff is a LIAR — and we have the proof
On the radio program Wednesday, Glenn Beck didn’t hold back when discussing the latest in a long list of lies issued by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) during the Democrats’ ongoing endeavor to remove President Donald Trump from office. “I’m going to just come out and say, Adam Schiff is a...
Biden and Sanders’ rift could define closing days in Iowa
MASON CITY, Iowa — The rivalry between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders is deepening as the Democratic presidential candidates are increasingly at loggerheads over their support of Social Security, signalling a battle ahead that could last well beyond the Iowa caucuses. Biden’s campaign released a video late Tuesday accusing Sanders of...
