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Senate Republicans declined to convict Donald Trump on Saturday for his role in his supporters’ deadly Jan. 6 insurrection, an expected outcome for an impeachment trial that could alter congressional politics
The surprise twist comes after the House managers said they want to depose a witness who has new information about Trump’s response to the Jan. 6 insurrection on the Capitol they’re charging him
Sleet and freezing rain continued to fall in Washington on Saturday as the Senate acquitted former President Donald Trump of “incitement of insurrection” for the Jan 6. Capitol attack.
Seven Republican senators crossed party lines and joined all 50 members of the Democratic Conference in voting to convict Trump for inciting the rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 to stop
He first objected to a reference about a lack of contact between Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in the hours and days after Pence’s life was in danger on Jan. 6. “Objection!”
“When McCarthy finally reached the president on January 6 and asked him to publicly and forcefully call off the riot, the president initially repeated the falsehood that it was antifa that had breached
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 with inciting.
Pivoting away from impeachment, the QAnon conspiracy theory and the violent Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the GOP sees championing the cause of returning students to their classrooms as a chief,
Trump’s defense team will present Friday boils down to this: Trump made some inappropriate remarks, but none of his rhetoric, covered under the First Amendment, rises to the level of inciting the Jan. 6
team sought to move quickly to a vote, a move that showed confidence that enough Republicans would remain loyal to their de facto leader to acquit Trump as early as Saturday of incitement of the Jan. 6
Trump’s defense team claimed, contrary to facts, that Trump had consistently called for peace as the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol unfolded and had never glorified violence during his presidency or
Ted Lieu read a line from her resignation letter that said the Jan. 6 attack “has deeply troubled me in a way that I simply cannot set aside.”
The other is persuading the American people that the conduct of President Trump, up to, during and after Jan. 6 disqualifies him from office, which is a decision ultimately in their hands.”
Security investigations In the background as Congress presses ahead with legislative business and annual traditions are ongoing investigations into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
What happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6 didn’t come out of nowhere, but it will take a lot more than a docu-series to unravel.
As Democratic impeachment managers made their case to senators that Donald Trump incited an insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, the former president’s second trial also came up on the campaign
That military and law enforcement veterans played an outsize role in the Jan. 6 pro-Trump riot at the Capitol should be a bipartisan cause for concern.
Two of the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump saw senators riveted to previously unseen Capitol security footage that showed them a terrifying view of the violence of the Jan. 6
Those efforts are likely to increase in the coming weeks as images from the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol are replayed during Donald Trump’s impeachment trial and as Democrats in both chambers
But the managers are hoping an emotional, gut-wrenching presentation illustrating how Trump allegedly incited the Jan. 6 insurrection on the Capitol may still persuade some of the 44 GOP senators