Impeachment
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Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara on Monday convened an emergency meeting with members of the State Security Council. The meeting, according to sources, was unconnected with the recent crisis rocking the political space in the state. The crisis had resulted in an explosion at the Rivers State House of Assembly complex, and subsequent suspension of…
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly parted ways on Saturday with the two lead lawyers working on his defense for his Senate impeachment trial, a source familiar with the situation said, leaving Trump’s legal strategy in disarray. Butch Bowers and Deborah Barberi, two South Carolina lawyers, are no longer on Trump’s team, the source said…
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There appeared to be a noticeable shift in the U.S. political landscape this week. President Donald Trump finally emerged triumphant from the battle over impeachment with rising poll ratings and a Democratic Party in disarray over a major election failure in Iowa. In the span of just a few days, Trump’s reelection prospects appeared more…
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Leading Republicans took to the talk show circuit Sunday to defend their expected acquittal of U.S. President Donald Trump at his Senate trial next week – despite offering sharp criticism of his role in the Ukraine scandal. The president was impeached in December for abuse of power over pressuring ally Kiev to announce investigations that…
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The Senate narrowly rejected Democratic demands to summon witnesses for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial late Friday, all but ensuring Trump’s acquittal in just the third trial to threaten a president’s removal in U.S. history. But senators pushed off final voting on his fate to next Wednesday, the Associated Press reports. The delay in timing…
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President Donald Trump lambasted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a pair of Christmas night tweets, calling her “crazy” and asking why she should be allowed to wage a “scam impeachment against him.” Then he went after her again Thursday morning. “The Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats said they wanted to RUSH everything through to the…
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President Donald Trump is blasting a prominent Christian magazine that published an editorial arguing that he should be removed from office. Trump tweeted Dec. 20 that the magazine, Christianity Today, an evangelical magazine founded by the late Rev. Billy Graham, is a “far left” publication, which “has been doing poorly and hasn’t been involved with the…
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The FBI had little evidence to launch the investigation into the Trump presidential campaign, according to U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr. In a statement released on Monday Barr was highly critical of the FBI, although he followed his criticism with praise for the current-day FBI administration. “Nothing is more important than the credibility and integrity of…
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Americans were divided on the impeachment of President Donald Trump after the first day of House hearings on the matter, a new poll showed Sunday. In the online survey conducted by YouGov for the Huffington Post, 45% said Trump should be impeached, while 42% said he should not. The news outlet reported the numbers have been about the same —…
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Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, on Sunday pushed back on the idea that evidence against President Donald Trump is “mounting” in the House impeachment inquiry. In an interview on ABC News’ “This Week,” Stewart said House Democrats are “in trouble.” “I don’t think the evidence is building at all–and I’m being sincere on this–I think the evidence is…
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Americans are not concerned about the Democratic-led impeachment probe because “it’s just version 2.0 of how do we get Trump because we don’t like him,” Donald Trump Jr. told Newsmax TV on Thursday. He told “America Talks Live” host John Cardillo that he has been “doing about 3,000 book signings per day for a week” to promote…
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Two top U.S. diplomats delivered gripping testimony on Wednesday about U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to get Ukraine to investigate his potential 2020 rival Joe Biden, as the impeachment inquiry into the president shifted into a new phase of high-stakes televised hearings. What did Taylor say? William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, began…
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A court in South Korea has sentenced the impeached-and-ousted president, Park Geun-hye, to 25 years behind bars. Image: Park Geun-hye Geun-hye’s ruling was announced by an appeal court on Friday. The former president of South Korea was convicted of collecting bribes to bend the law for Samsung, the Asian country’s largest multinational corporation. According to…
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