WASHINGTON — With hours left to spare, former president Donald Trump‘s lawyers concluded their arguments in defense of Trump on Friday afternoon. The defense’s case had a throw-everything-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks quality to it: Lawyers Michael van der Veen, David Schoen, and Bruce Castor contended that the charge leveled against Trump of inciting …
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Hagiography usually waits until someone has died, but Mitt Romney is still very much alive. In the Senate’s final vote to acquit Donald Trump of all charges, Romney became the first Senator to vote to convict and remove from office a president of their own party, with the Utah Republican …
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WASHINGTON —Gordon Sondland is a wealthy hotelier and lifelong Republican who, despite having no diplomatic experience, scored a plum gig as President Trump’s U.S. ambassador to the European Union. (Sondland’s $1 million donation to Trump’s inauguration surely didn’t hurt.) As ambassador, Sondland’s portfolio included Ukraine. From the spring to the …
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If you’re under federal indictment for money laundering charges, it might be better not to have “Fraud Guarantee” and “Loan Crime Investigation” on your resume. Lev Parnas — one of the Rudy Giuliani associates indicted on conspiracy charges relating to fraudulent campaign donations, including allegedly steering Russian money into the …
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Following his extensive coverage on the Russia investigation, or “Stupid Watergate,” John Oliver delved into President Trump’s political “sequel,” the Ukraine scandal, on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight. The comedian dubbed the political dustup “Stupid Watergate II: The Stupidest Watergate.” Oliver started off by summarizing the story: On a phone call …
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WASHINGTON — Andy Kim had finally seen enough. Until Tuesday, the freshman congressman from New Jersey’s 3rd district had kept a wary distance from the debate over whether to impeach President Trump. Kim, who is 37, won his South Jersey district by a few thousand votes in 2018, ousting a …
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House of Representatives is opening an impeachment inquiry against President Trump amid new revelations about Trump’s attempt to leverage foreign aid to push Ukraine to investigate a potential presidential rival. “The president must be held accountable, and no one is above the law,” Pelosi said …
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Don McGahn was supposed to appear before Congress on Tuesday. He was legally required to, in fact. He didn’t show. President Trump instructed the former White House legal counsel to defy the House Judiciary Committee’s subpoena to answer questions that have risen since the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s …
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