Lawyers for both sides reached an agreement in Donald Trump‘s second impeachment trial not to call witnesses hours after the Senate had voted in favor of allowing them. The unexpected 55-45 vote to allow witnesses, which included five Republicans, was prompted when more details emerged about a January 6th call …
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Prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia, have opened a criminal investigation into Trump’s January phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the New York Times first reported on Wednesday. During the call, the former president can be heard pressuring state officials to “find” enough votes to help him overturn …
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Donald Trump should be happy that he has presided over more than 390,000 deaths from Covid-19 in the United States instead of over the Flint water crisis. Otherwise, he might some day face legal consequences. Former Michigan governor Rick Snyder was finally brought up on charges Thursday,more than six years …
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Donald Trump was impeached for the second time in his presidency on Wednesday, a landmark moment in U.S. history that created many a zinger on late-night television. “I feel like I just took down my decorations from the last impeachment,” Stephen Colbert said, followed shortly after by: “It makes sense …
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Early Wednesday, the Trump administration executed the only woman on federal death row, Lisa M. Montgomery, age 52. She was the first woman put to death in almost 70 years, according to The New York Times, the last two being Bonnie Brown Heady for kidnapping and murder and Ethel Rosenberg …
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is calling for a strong response to the attack on the Capitol that President Trump fueled. She wants Congress to act to remove Trump from office, bar him from holding federal office again, and block him from pardoning himself. She has also said Sens. Ted Cruz …
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Facebook and Instagram will be blocking Donald Trump from using their platforms indefinitely, following the president’s incitement of a mob of his supporters storming the Capitol Building on Wednesday. The news follows Facebook’s decision to remove a video message posted by Trump during …
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With the Trump era about to come to a messy but definitive end, the latest episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast looks back at four years of bizarre and fraught battles over music. Why does Donald Trump think it’s smart to play Creedence Clearwater Revival‘s “Fortunate Son” at …
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Everyone from Spike Lee to Thom Yorke has hit the streets — and Twitter — in celebration of Joe Biden, who was elected the 46th President of the United States Saturday after a lengthy week of vote tallying. https://thisforall.net/OrangePaulp/status/1325129928262742017?s=20 In a video shared to Twitter, movie director and producer Spike …
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Freshly returned from Walter Reed hospital, President Trump ordered a halt to ongoing negotiations over another Covid-19 relief package. Instead, he directed Republican Senators to focus exclusively on confirming Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court before Election Day. “I have asked Mitch McConnell not to delay, but to …
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