Impeachment

World 4 Jan, 2021 07:59 PM5 minutes to read Listen: Leaked audio from Trump's phone call to Georgia's secretary of state demanding he "find" enough votes to overturn the election. Audio / Washington PostUS President Donald Trump has been labelled desperate and disgraceful, with calls for his impeachment or prosecution,…

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President Trump is naming a who’s who of close allies and confidantes to high-profile boards on his way out the door. He tapped Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general and key impeachment adviser, to serve on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Hope Hicks, a close…

A loose coalition of celebrities, attorneys, and petitioners—including Kim Kardashian and one of the lawyers who defended Donald Trump during impeachment—are working to convince the president to stop the execution of a federal prisoner named Brandon Bernard.They view it as, potentially, one of Trump’s final acts of clemency before Joe…

The Russia collusion narrative failed. The impeachment failed. But Hollywood filmmaker Rob Reiner is still holding out hope that President Donald Trump will one day be led away in handcuffs. The Princess Bride director is demanding the creation of a “non-partisan commission” to investigate President Trump after he leaves the…

During the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, the Republican excuse for acquitting the president was, “This shouldn’t be up to us—let the voters decide.” Well, the voters have decided. And there is still universal silence from those senators.Nov. 21, 2020Read More

When Trump refuses to concede and threatens to stay on, we get a sense of the extent to which stable societies depend on shared assumptions of good will. This point was observed by the nascent discipline of sociology in the late 1800s, and given the dull name "norms" to mark how…

Speaking with CNN on Tuesday morning, Democratic Senator Chris Coons danced a tired routine. As the interview turned toward the refusal by Republican congressional leaders to refute the lame-duck president’s dangerous attempts to invalidate the victory of President-elect Joe Biden, CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota asked Coons why his Republican colleagues…

Donald Trump is doubling down on his refusal to accept defeat in the US election, tweeting further baseless allegations of voter fraud after being informed of the result while on the golf course.The soon-to-be ousted US leader last night returned to his favourite platform, tweeting: “Since when does the Lamestream Media…

Maintaining the position he has voiced practically since 2016 -- not to accept any election results unless he wins -- Donald Trump has refused to concede that Joe Biden has won the 2020 U.S. election and is now president-elect. This is despite the many national leaders (Justin Trudeau was among the first) who swiftly congratulated Biden…