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7 Highlights From Day 3 of the Trump Impeachment Trial
House Democrats on Thursday, in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, argued that a crime isn’t necessary to remove a president from office and doubled down on their defense of Joe and Hunter Biden. The seven House Democrats who are the impeachment managers, including Reps. Adam Schiff of California and Jerry Nadler of New York,...
Attorneys General Warn Impeaching Trump Will Have Long-Term Consequences
The Constitution’s impeachment provisions are among the few that we would rather never be used. President Donald Trump is the 20th public official, and only the third president, to be impeached by the House of Representatives. Because the result of House impeachment, followed by conviction in a Senate trial, removes the president from...
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...
House’s Prosecutors Supported Impeachment Well Before Trump’s Ukraine Call
Three of the House Democrats prosecuting President Donald Trump in the Senate’s impeachment trial—Jerry Nadler of New York, Zoe Lofgren of California, and Sylvia Garcia of Texas—are among lawmakers who voted last year to advance the president’s removal. Eight days after that vote, Trump talked by phone with Ukrainian President...
The Show Trial Begins
The contrast could not have been starker. One picture showed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi smiling as she signed (with numerous pens) two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. She passed out the pens like souvenirs to fellow Democrats. They were embossed in gold with her signature and rested on silver trays. The other picture was...
Ukrainians React to Iran’s Admission of Guilt in Shooting Down Airliner
KYIV, Ukraine—Ukrainians of all generations know what it’s like to have a war in their homeland. In World War II, Ukraine was the deadliest battlefield of the deadliest war in human history. And today, just 400 miles southeast of Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv, Ukrainian soldiers remain hunkered down in trenches and improvised forts,...
We Hear You: Sex Ed, Student Loans, and Government Spending
Editor’s note: Here’s some of what’s on the minds of The Daily Signal’s audience, straight out of the ol’ inbox. Please don’t neglect to write us at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: As one of the principal organizers of the defeat of Washington state’s “comprehensive sexual health...
4 Things to Know About Lev Parnas, the Left’s New Hero
An associate of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, one of the president’s personal lawyers, is the left’s new hero going into the Senate impeachment trial. He is a native of Ukraine named Lev Parnas, and he and his business partner were arrested in October as they appeared to try to leave the country while under federal indictment...
Trump Administration Illegally Withheld Aid From Ukraine, GAO Finds
The Trump administration violated the law by withholding $214 million in security assistance to Ukraine in the summer of 2019, according to a legal opinion by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office. “Today, GAO issued a legal decision concluding that the Office of Management and Budget violated the law when it withheld approximately...
Why It Looks Like Iran Shot Down Ukrainian Airliner
KYIV, Ukraine—U.S. officials say Iran likely shot down a Ukrainian airliner by accident Wednesday morning, just hours after the Islamist regime launched a barrage of ballistic missiles at bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops. According to news reports, American intelligence suggests that Iran fired two Cold War-era, Tor surface-to-air missiles at...
