Donald Trump
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Impeachment Trial, Day 1: Senate Votes to Proceed With Trial, Rejecting Trump's Argument That It Was Unconstitutional
The first day of the historic second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump provided his lawyers an opportunity to prove that the trial was unconstitutional and therefore should not proceed, an argument the Senate rejected in a mostly party line vote of 56 to 44. Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) delivered…
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Georgia to Investigate Trump's Attempt to Overturn State's Election Results
The office of the secretary of state of Georgia is opening an inquiry into whether or not former president Donald Trump broke state laws when he tried to overturn the election results there, The New York Times reports. At the heart of the inquiry are a series of phone calls Donald Trump made to Secretary…
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Donald Trump's Second Impeachment Trial, Explained
Today, the U.S. Senate will begin the impeachment trial to determine whether former President Donald Trump is guilty of inciting an insurrection. This is the second time he has been impeached, the first time ever for a U.S. president. In 2019, he was impeached on two counts of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Continues to Push Conspiracies on Twitter, This Time About the Capitol Insurrection
Despite Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s halfway attempt at walking back her love of conspiracies theories last week—ahead of having her committee assignments in Congress taken away—the Republican fire-starter continues to show she’s still someone who doesn’t belong in government, period. On Tuesday, Greene took to Twitter—where her fellow profligate liar former President Trump has…
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Van Jones Goes on The View and Gets Roasted Like a Two-Faced Potato Because Ain't No Such Thing as Halfway Activists
Sis, you ain’t have to do Van like that. You didn’t have to bring that man on your show and call him out for flip-flopping more than a fish out of water. You ain’t have to pull that man’s hoe-card and tell him that the fence is not a Dodge Challenger so NEGRO, YOU DON’T…
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GOP-Led States Still Mad About The 1619 Project, Considering Legislation to Dictate How Slavery Is Taught
It’s Thursday, so you know what that means: Another round of Republicans being unwilling to face the fact that slavery was the horrific, violent foundation upon which this country was built. In several states with GOP leadership, legislation is being considered to ensure that the brutal reality of slavery isn’t taught in schools. According to…
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Trump's Lawyers for the Impeachment Trial Have All Dumped Him
Former President Donald Trump is having a real rough start to the year. A little over a week after his supporters led a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 that he incited, Trump earned the ignoble distinction of being the only president in history to be impeached twice. Now, just before the…