On the fourth day of Trump's trial for impeachment in the US senate, impeachment manager Hakeem Jeffries warned that the president's actions toward Ukraine had put the country in jeopardy.
The New York Democrat also warned of a 'toxic mess' emanating from the White House, that 'is our collective job on behalf of the people to try and clean up'.
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Democrats say impeachment case ‘has been proved’ as they make final pitch – live
- On recording Trump calls for ousting of Marie Yovanovitch
- Impeachment managers will finish presenting opening arguments today
- Next Trump’s lawyers will be given up to 24 hours to begin their defense
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“Give America a fair trial,” impeachment manager Adam Schiff said, wrapping up the Democrats’ opening statements. “She’s worth it.”
And just like that, Senate has adjourned for the night. The impeachment trial continues tomorrow morning.
As impeachment manager Adam Schiff continues to talk, Donald Trump has gone on a retweeting frenzy. He reposted a tweet of his from earlier today, as well as one from the Senate Republicans account, and one each from Republican senators John Barrasso and Marsha Blackburn.
This obsession with impeachment* is out of hand.
Tennesseans have their priorities straight: trade, border security, and creating jobs. pic.twitter.com/vNFjPBA2MQ
Impeachment trial: Democrats cry hypocrisy as Republicans say ‘we’ve seen this before’ – live updates
- Democrats continue prosecution on third day of trial
- Jerry Nadler says Trump’s conduct ‘puts even Nixon to shame’
- Democrats criticize Republicans, who claim house managers are repeating themselves, for not allowing new evidence
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A few more scenes from the trial chamber:
Senators and 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar reportedly shared a laugh.
On the floor, Bernie Sanders looked quite tired, ultimately got up, walked to the back of the chamber - and chatted briefly with Amy Klobuchar. She pointed to something in her binder. They both shared a laugh and Sanders retreated to the cloak room.
Sen. Tillis is not in his seat at the moment. He’s sitting watching from above in the visitor gallery, for some reason
Emphasizing that nearly $400m in congressionally-appropriated military aid to Ukraine was held up for no good reason, the impeachment manager Zoe Lofgren, with the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, sitting nearby, pointed out: “Even Senator McConnell has said ‘I was not given an explanation’ for the hold.”
The evidence is clear that Donald Trump “knowingly, willfully violated the law when he withheld the aid to Ukraine”, Lofgren said. “It shows the great lengths the president was willing to go to in order to pressure Ukraine to do his dirty work.”
Continue reading...Impeachment: Democrats say conduct is ‘not America first, but Trump first’
- House managers make case for president’s removal from office
- So far, all the signs are that Republicans are unmoved
Donald Trump put his personal political interests ahead of his country’s national security and free and fair elections, prosecutors at his impeachment trial on Capitol Hill said on Thursday, telling US senators: “This conduct is not ‘America first’. It is Donald Trump first.”
Democratic impeachment managers, who are acting as the prosecutors bringing the case for Trump’s removal from office, were spending a second day in Washington laying out their case against Trump in only the third presidential impeachment trial in American history.
Continue reading...‘Our future is not assured’: Schiff issues stark warning at impeachment trial
- Impeachment manager describes moment of historic national crisis
- After rejecting fresh witnesses, Republicans say they heard nothing new
- Some senators exit chamber despite trial rules
Striving to make himself heard across partisan lines, the lead impeachment prosecutor filled his opening argument against Donald Trump on the Senate floor on Wednesday with invitations, warnings and appeals designed to win Republican backing for a substantial trial.
Using flowing evocations of constitutional history, the global promise of US democracy, and the stakes should it all be allowed to slip, Democrat Adam Schiff framed his story of Trump’s wrongdoing as a national crisis demanding a non-partisan remedy.
Continue reading...Trump impeachment: senators kill Democratic efforts to subpoena more evidence – live
- First day of trial sees hours of debate over procedure
- House manager Adam Schiff calls process ‘ass-backwards’
- Senate votes down amendments brought by Democrats
After 13 hours of debate, Republican senators pushed through the organizing resolution for the impeachment proposed by Mitch McConnell, without any of the 11 amendments proposed by Democrats.
The trial is now adjourned until 1pm ET on Wednesday.
The final amendment proposed by minority leader Chuck Schumer would allow Chief Justice John Roberts — as a neutral party — to decide whether to allow motions to subpoena witnesses or documents.
Finally, the senators are voting on the organizing resolution for the impeachment trial, as proposed by Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell.
Continue reading...Hillary Clinton says ‘nobody likes’ Bernie Sanders and won’t commit to backing him
2016 nominee made comments in Hulu documentary and pointed to ‘culture around’ the senator that she said perpetuated sexism
Hillary Clinton has criticized Bernie Sanders, insisting “nobody likes” and “nobody wants to work with” him. Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, also refused to commit to endorsing Sanders should he win the primary this year.
Related: Top progressives back Sanders as skirmish with Warren rumbles on
Continue reading...Impeachment: Trump wants Senate trial over before State of the Union address
- Graham outlines unlikely aim given battles to come
- A Very Stable Genius review: at the court of King Donald
- Impeachment: is Trump set to survive and win a second term?
Donald Trump wants his impeachment trial to end before his state of the union address in just two weeks’ time, Lindsey Graham said on Sunday.
Related: Alan Dershowitz: Trump impeachment acquittal would make me unhappy
Continue reading...‘I’d like to vote Democratic’: the swing voters who want a reason not to back Trump again
Monroe county, Michigan, saw one of the largest swings in the country from Obama to Trump – and so far many swing voters are likely to go for Trump even as they have plenty of doubt
It’s not that James Padot hugely admires Donald Trump or his values.
After all, Padot spent more than four decades as a pipe fitter, a skilled trade that provided a good living but relied on the power of his labour union for work and to ensure he was decently paid.
Continue reading...Trump legal team calls impeachment ‘brazen’ attempt to overturn 2016 election
- Both sides lay out arguments for trial starting on Tuesday
- White House claims ‘dangerous attack’ on US democracy
- Dershowitz: Trump acquittal would make me unhappy
Donald Trump’s legal team has delivered a fiery response to impeachment summons from the Senate, calling the two articles passed by the House “a dangerous attack on the right of the American people to freely choose their president”.
Related: Impeachment: is Trump set to survive and win a second term?
Continue reading...Impeachment: is Trump set to survive and win a second term?
As Democrats marched the articles to the Senate, the president basked in policy success. Many think re-election is coming
It was, the White House tweeted on Friday, “an incredible week” for Donald Trump. On that, no one could disagree. But what kind of incredible depended on which end of Pennsylvania Avenue you were standing.
Related: How to dump Trump: Rick Wilson on Running Against the Devil
Continue reading...Evelyn Yang, Andrew’s wife, says doctor assaulted her while she was pregnant
Yang describes 2012 attack to CNN as she and 31 other women sue Dr Robert Hadden and Columbia University
The wife of the Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang says she was sexually assaulted by her obstetrician-gynecologist while she was pregnant with the couple’s first child.
Evelyn Yang said in an interview televised on Thursday by CNN that the assault happened in 2012, and she was initially afraid to tell anyone. She and 31 other women are now suing the doctor and hospital system, saying they conspired and enabled the crimes.
Continue reading...Trump impeachment trial set to begin amid damaging new Ukraine revelations – live
House prosecutors to arrive at Senate to formally open trial as Lev Parnas tells reporters president was fully aware of efforts to pressure Ukraine
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An independent government watchdog, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), said the White House budget office violated the law when it froze US military aid to Ukraine.
“Faithful execution of the law does not permit the president to substitute his own policy priorities for those that Congress has enacted into law,” the report said.
Yesterday, the House voted to send articles of impeachment to the Senate, setting in motion the third impeachment Senate trial in US history.
Here’s how that looks today:
Continue reading...‘You called me a liar on national TV’: audio released of testy Warren-Sanders exchange
Candidates and longtime friends trade angry remarks before Tom Steyer offers an awkward hello
CNN has released the audio of the testy exchange between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders that took place following Tuesday’s Democratic debate.
After the debate wrapped, Bernie Sanders outstretched his hand to Elizabeth Warren. Warren did not take it, and the two progressive candidates, who until recently have avoided criticizing each other publicly, exchanged words – which until now were inaudible.
Continue reading...Warren-Sanders tension simmers and Steyer makes a mark: key debate takeaways
The Iowa debate ended in a quarrel between the two progressives, but there were other moments to remember
The final Democratic debate before voting begins in the Iowa caucus early next month ended in a testy confrontation between progressive senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
Related: Elizabeth Warren's confrontation with Bernie Sanders caps testy debate night
Continue reading...Democratic debate: rivals square off in final debate before Iowa caucuses – live
- Six candidates to debate at Drake University in Des Moines
- Sanders, Warren, Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar and Steyer feature
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Hours before the debate on Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House would vote to send its impeachment charges against Donald Trump to the Senate the following day.
Even though six Democratic presidential candidates failed to meet the polling requirement for tonight’s debate, one candidate who did manage to cross that threshold will not be onstage tonight: Michael Bloomberg.
Continue reading...Warren says Sanders told her no woman could beat Trump in 2020
Sanders has called reports of his remarks ‘ludicrous’ as tensions between campaigns surge ahead of first votes
Elizabeth Warren has said Bernie Sanders told her during a private meeting that he did not believe a woman could beat Donald Trump in 2020, a version of events that Sanders vehemently denies.
In a statement issued on Monday evening, Warren offered her recollections of their conversation, a one-on-one discussion which took place in Washington at the end of 2018, when each senator was laying the groundwork for a presidential run.
Continue reading...Cory Booker ends 2020 presidential campaign – live updates
Booker emailed supporters announcing move to shutter his campaign after struggling with fundraising and failing to qualify for debates
Donald Trump is having a busy day on Twitter, including going after the Democrats over their reaction to the assassination of Gen Qassem Suleimani.
“The Fake News Media and their Democrat Partners are working hard to determine whether or not the future attack by terrorist Suleimani was ‘eminent’ [sic – he means “imminent”] or not, & was my team in agreement,” the president wrote, in a tweet that was deleted and reissued, spelling fixed.
Related: Esper contradicts Trump claim Iran planned attacks on four US embassies
The Democrats and the Fake News are trying to make terrorist Suleimani into a wonderful guy, only because I did what should have been done for 20 years. Anything I do, whether it’s the economy, military, or anything else, will be scorned by the Rafical [sic] Left, Do Nothing Democrats!
The corrupted Dems trying their best to come to the Ayatollah's rescue.#NancyPelosiFakeNews pic.twitter.com/a0ksPHeXCy
Related: Iranian police fired live rounds to disperse protesters, say witnesses
Senator Cory Booker announced Monday that he is suspending his presidential campaign.
He sent the following email to supporters announcing the move:
Friend,
Nearly one year ago, I got in the race for president because I believed to my core that the answer to the common pain Americans are feeling right now, the answer to Donald Trump’s hatred and division, is to reignite our spirit of common purpose to take on our biggest challenges and build a more just and fair country for everyone.
Continue reading...Billionaire Tom Steyer defends place in Iowa Democratic debate
- Billionaire hedge funder is sixth qualifier for seventh debate
- How to dump Trump: Rick Wilson on Running Against the Devil
Tom Steyer, the billionaire hedge funder, has claimed picking a nominee to face Donald Trump in November is “more about judgment than experience”.
Related: Impeachment: Trump fumes as Pelosi prepares to send articles to the Senate
Continue reading...Impeachment: Trump fumes as Pelosi prepares to send articles to the Senate
- President claims speaker is ‘absolute worst in US history’
- How to dump Trump: Rick Wilson on Running Against the Devil
Whether or not Nancy Pelosi is the “absolute worst Speaker of the House in US history”, as Donald Trump insists, the Democrat said on Sunday her caucus will meet on Tuesday to decide when to transmit two articles of impeachment to the Senate for trial.
Related: John Bolton impeachment testimony will be blocked, Donald Trump says
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