Impeachment

The Senate was preparing to conclude former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial Saturday and hand him another acquittal. But then news broke late Friday of a damning statement Trump made to House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy during the Jan. 6 insurrection on the Capitol the House is charging him…

Topline Trump defense attorney Michael van der Veen’s driveway was marked with graffiti on Friday, hours after the Pennsylvania-based personal injury lawyer first appeared in the Senate chamber to defend former President Donald Trump against impeachment — it’s the latest act of vandalism to hit a U.S. political figure in…

Topline The Senate on Saturday voted to call witnesses in former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, elongating a process that had been headed towards a swift conclusion until new details emerged Friday night of a phone call between Trump and House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy. WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 12:…

Posted February 12, 2021 at 8:59pm Lawyers for Donald Trump channeled the former president’s pugnacious partisan style in his defense Friday, even blaming Democrats as the reason they spent fewer than three hours on their presentation. They called the House case for impeachment a “witch hunt.” They accused the House…

Posted February 12, 2021 at 8:48pm On the fourth day in the chamber for the second presidential impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, senators grew antsy and animated as they listened to Trump’s attorneys mount their defense. They huddled and strategized what questions to ask the Trump legal team…

Jamie Raskin, D-Md., is the lead house impeachment manager that is a new favorite of the mainstream media. Laura Ingraham of “The Ingraham Angle” referred to him as Adam Schiff but with “better hair”. Ingraham pointed out the Raskin was one of many Democrats that objected to the certification of…

President Trump’s defense in the Senate impeachment trial is expected to wrap up sometime Friday. Trump attorney Bruce Castor was asked about the defense and if he believed arguments would last 3 hours, to which he replied, “probably longer.” “Trump’s attorneys are expected to argue that Democrats are being hypocritical in…

Watching the House managers present their case in Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial reminded me less of an actual criminal trial and more of the conclusion of the HBO miniseries Chernobyl. In the final episode, the beleaguered Soviet physicist Valery Legasov, played by Jared Harris, also takes part in a…

House prosecutors wrapped up their case against former President Trump on Thursday, arguing that rioters on Jan. 6. thought they were acting on Trump’s orders and that he has shown no remorse or culpability for his role, and warning that if he isn’t held accountable, Trump could try to use…

For the second time in a little over a year, House Democrats laid out evidence that former President Donald Trump had committed a crime against the Constitution. For hours, senators again sat as the impeachment managers hammered home that Trump had tried to swing the outcome of the presidential election.…