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A Republican congresswoman intervened in the last hours of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial to plead with ‘patriots’ who were around him on January 6 to go public on his actions. Jaime Herrera Beutler, who voted for Trump’s impeachment, made the plea with hours before a likely vote on Trump’s fate after revealing how he had … Read more
Mitch McConnell launches all-out attack on Trump AFTER voting to clear him: GOP leader says ex-president could be sued or prosecuted and was solely responsible for MAGA riot – but trial was unconstitutional Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell launched a fiery attack on Donald Trump Saturday after already voting to acquit the former president McConnell … Read more
The Senate voted to acquit President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial Saturday as the vast majority of Republicans held together against a charge that he incited the Capitol riot of January 6. After a roll call vote of the Senate, 57 senators voted to convict, with 43 senators voting to acquit. It wasn’t enough … Read more
President Donald Trump’s team of impeachment lawyers summoned the furious rhetorical style of their client as they began his defense Friday against what they termed a ‘sham impeachment’ they branded a ‘witch hunt.’ Lawyer Michael van der Veen came out swinging with legal arguments that appeared to channel the former Twitter rage of his client … Read more
Lead House impeachment manager Jamie Raskin on Wednesday called Donald Trump ‘a man who praised and encouraged and cultivated violence’ when it came to the January 6th MAGA riot on Capitol Hill. Raskin made his charge as the prosecution began its case against the former president. Trump is charged on one count of impeachment – … Read more
Lead House impeachment manager Jamie Raskin called Donald Trump ‘a man who praised and encouraged and cultivated violence’ when it came to the January 6th MAGA riot on Capitol Hill. Raskin made his charge Wednesday as the prosecution began its case against the former president. Trump is charged on one count of impeachment – inciting … Read more
Riot police were deployed in Myanmar today as thousands of protesters flooded the streets to demand the end of the military junta which seized power this week. Heavily-armoured officers blocked off roads with water-cannon trucks and barbed-wire bamboo barricades as the crowds yelled: ‘Down with the military dictatorship’ in Yangon (Rangoon). In the largest display … Read more
A charity boss has been jailed for three months after she and her daughter started a mid-air ‘riot’ on board a passenger jet after being told off for drunkenly swearing as they were flying out on holiday to Morocco. Karin Parkes, 57, and former civil servant Carrie Parkes, 35, triggered a ‘full on fight’ involving up … Read more
Moment police take down ‘Molotov cocktail attacker’: Riot officers chase stab vest-wearing man around garden trampoline as they hunt suspect who threw petrol bomb near synagogue Video shows a man running into a garden as he is pursued by dozen riot officers Footage shows the officers tackling the man to the ground after using tear gas … Read more
The main donor behind the Washintgon D.C. ‘Stop the Steal’ rally that sparked a riot on the U.S. Capitol on January 6 has been revealed as the heiress to the Publix Super Markets Inc. chain. Julie Jenkins Fancelli, a prominent Trump donor, pledged $300,000 to the MAGA rally in an arrangement set up by far-right show … Read more