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On January 13, 2021, the Democrat-led US House of Representatives voted to impeach outgoing Republican President Donald Trump for a second time. Trump had apparently whipped up a group of supporters who had invaded Congress on January 6, seeking to stop the confirmation of Joe Biden as the next president, then failed to immediately disown them. Five people were killed in the assault.
Trump had earlier been impeached on December 18, 2019, on two counts: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. He was acquitted by the Republican-majority Senate on February 5, 2020.
The vote in the House of Representatives showed there will be no attempt by the Republicans to reconcile themselves with what Trump did on January 6. In fact, the many steps ahead will offer Republicans numerous opportunities to spread misinformation.
Following the acquittal of Donald Trump, the Grand Old Party has to now abandon divisive policies and return to the centre-right in mainstream American political life
- The tentative date could put Trump in a New York courtroom during the heat of the 2024 presidential primary season
- The judge warned Trump he risks being held in contempt if he uses evidence turned over by prosecutors to target witnesses or others involved in the case
Deposition is in regards to a legal battle over his company’s business practices, and is unrelated to last week’s historic arraignment.
Security tightens in Manhattan ahead of Trump’s trip to New York City for Tuesday’s arraignment over hush money paid to a porn star before 2016 election.
Trump is being investigated over his role in hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Lawyer Joe Tacopina said Trump will ’loudly and proudly’ plead not guilty.
Trump told supporters gathered at Waco’s airport in Texas on Saturday that the investigations swirling around him were ‘something straight out of the Stalinist Russia horror show.’
Porn actress Stormy Daniels claims she was paid to keep quiet about a sexual encounter with the former president in 2006.
Trump said on social media that he expected to be taken into custody on Tuesday as a New York grand jury investigates hush money payments to women who alleged sexual encounters with the former US president.
‘Sorry to keep you waiting – complicated business,’ Trump, 76, said alongside a video clip on the social media platforms which banned the former US president days after the January 6 Capitol insurrection in 2021.
Speaking at the Gridiron Club Dinner, a prestigious press event in Washington on Saturday night, Pence said: ‘The American people know what happened that day because you never stopped reporting.’
‘We’re going to see battle through to ultimate victory. We’re going to make America great again’.
‘The central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, who many others followed,’ reads the report, which is expected to be released in full on Thursday. ‘None of the events … would have happened without him.’
‘Attacking the Constitution and all it stands for is anathema to the soul of our nation and should be universally condemned,’ said a White House statement.
Congressman Bennie Thompson has also appointed a subcommittee to investigate issues, including unanswered subpoenas for former president Donald Trump.
Lawmakers probing the January 6 insurrection say the ex-president ‘personally orchestrated and oversaw’ the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The judge allowed Bannon to stay free pending appeal and also imposed a fine of US$6,500. He was convicted in July of two counts of contempt of Congress: refusing to sit for a deposition and refusing to provide documents.
Former US president appeared in video shown at Madrid rally which also showed messages from Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, among others.
The ex-US president’s lawyers say the news network has tried to taint him with labels like ‘racist’, ‘Russian lacky’, ‘insurrectionist’ and ‘Hitler’.
The partially blacked-out document explains the justification for an FBI search of former US President Donald Trump’s Florida estate earlier this month.
Britain’s Alex Holder told the BBC he has armed guards who follow him ‘everywhere’, with ‘all sorts of conspiracies and threats coming through’.
Donald Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of his presidential limousine on January 6, 2021, when his security detail declined to take him to the US Capitol, a former aide testified.
The ex-adviser faces contempt charges for refusing to appear for a deposition or to produce documents requested by a panel probing the January 6 insurrection.
The records are visitor logs with appointment information for individuals who were allowed to enter the White House on the day of the insurrection.
Former US leader spoke out during supporters’ rally in Texas; he has long fixated on president’s son Hunter, whose financial dealings with China, Ukraine have been scrutinised.
The Select Committee on January 6 is looking for evidence that Republican officials in some states sought to nominate their own slates of electors, rather than those chosen by voters in 2020,
Donald Trump delivered speech to thousands of supporters in Arizona on Saturday. He claimed that white people are at the ‘back of the line’ for Covid-19 treatments.
Panel members – seven Democrats, two Republicans – will start to reveal what they have learned about last year’s riot after detailed investigation.
The deferral is in response to concerns by the Biden White House that releasing all the Trump administration documents sought by the committee could compromise national security and executive privilege.
A committee of lawmakers is also seeking documents and testimony from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and three others over the January 6 incident.
