US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell arrives at his office after speaking on the Senate floor in the US Capitol [Al Drago/Reuters] US Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial: “January 6th [2021] was a disgrace. “American citizens attacked their own government. …
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Donald Trump avoided conviction by a vote of 57–43, but the Democratic impeachment managers presented overwhelming evidence of his culpability.Photograph by Saul Loeb / Getty On January 18th, two days before relinquishing power and flying off to his tropical exile, Donald Trump did what tyrants love to do: he attempted to rewrite the history of …
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Former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (center) answers questions in Geneva in July, following her hearing before representatives of the World Trade Organization’s 164 member states, as part of her application to lead the WTO as director general. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images) After the head of the World Trade Organization stepped down in August, member countries …
About five minutes into his argument on Tuesday, the first day of the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, Bruce Castor, one of the former President’s lawyers, asked the senators before him to picture a married couple in a car. “When you’re driving down the street and you look over at your wife and you …
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