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The decade that shook America

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2010 to 2020 was a contradictory decade that will confound future historians with a simple question: how did America go from Obama to Trump?

Lin-Manuel Miranda was touring his award-winning musical, In the Heights, to his parents’ homeland of Puerto Rico. Donald Trump was awarding first prize on his reality TV show, The Apprentice, to a corporate lawyer turned mobile cupcake entrepreneur.

The year was 2010 and, in the decade that followed, these two hustlers from New York with fiercely devoted followings would come to represent the two faces of America.

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Nancy Pelosi on Trump: ‘He’ll be impeached for ever’ – live

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  • ‘No matter what the Senate does – he’s impeached for ever’
  • Trump to sign spending deal today including $738bn defense bill
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That’s all from me. Thanks for sticking around for the tail end of this momentous week.

Here’s a summary of the day’s major stories:

Bernie Sanders spoke with my colleague Sam Levin this morning, and reiterated his critique of Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden and billionaires:

They will tell you, ‘It doesn’t impact me. It really doesn’t mean anything to me.’ That is clearly nonsensical. Why would billionaires and wealthy people be making large contributions if it didn’t mean something to them?

The United Kingdom, last I heard, is not the United States. Brexit is not a major part of what this campaign is about. The issues that I am campaigning on, in fact, are precisely the issues the American people support. Talk about raising the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour. Four years ago when I introduced that concept, it was a radical idea. Not radical anymore.

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Trump: ‘I don’t feel like I’m being impeached’ – video

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Donald Trump has said he 'doesn't feel like' he's being impeached because the impeachment inquiry into him was 'a hoax'. Responding to the question of how it feels to be the third president impeached by the House, Trump criticised the Democratic party saying 'they happen to have a small majority and they took that and forced people', adding: 'they put the arm on everybody'.

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‘Maybe he’s looking up’: Trump suggests late congressman John Dingell is in hell – video

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President Donald Trump went after a Michigan congresswoman and her late husband, the nation's longest serving member of the US Congress, in a rant during his rally in Battle Creek on Wednesday. Shortly after the House of Representatives voted to impeach Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, the president took aim at some of the Democrats who voted against him, including Michigan Rep Debbie Dingell.

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McConnell and Pelosi set for showdown over next steps of Trump impeachment

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  • Not clear when articles of impeachment will reach Senate
  • Pelosi threatens delay until she receives assurances of fair trial

As Washington awoke on Thursday to the realisation that it had impeached the third US president in American history, the capital remained racked with uncertainty about what will come next in an impeachment process defined by almost total partisanship and rancor.

Related: Trump impeachment charges 'absolutely made up', says Putin

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Nancy Pelosi silences applause after impeachment vote – video

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The House speaker sternly shut down House Democrats who began to clap as she announced the results of a vote on the first of two articles of impeachment against Donald Trump.

Pelosi said the vote, on Wednesday, was a 'sad' occasion and that it was 'tragic' the president’s reckless actions had made it necessary.

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Trump reacts to his impeachment: ‘It’s a political suicide march for the Democratic party’ – video

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As members of Congress moved to make him the third US president in history to be impeached, Donald Trump spoke at a campaign rally in Michigan. He shrugged off the historic vote at Washington, saying: 'It doesn’t really feel like we’re being impeached.' 


The House voted 230-197 to approve the first article of impeachment, charging Trump with abuse of power, and 229-190 for the second article, charging Trump with obstruction of Congress. 

But Trump was not fazed by the vote, instead remarking that it had only made him politically stronger. 'This lawless, partisan impeachment is a political suicide march for the Democratic party – have you seen my polls in the last four weeks?' The crowd roared in response

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Impeachment debate drama: six hours distilled into three minutes – video

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Members of the House of Representatives debate the two articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, with both parties accusing each other variously of defending the indefensible, tearing families apart and even being nastier to the president than Pontius Pilate was to Jesus. After a day-long debate, Trump became the third president in US history  to be impeached.

 

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A divided America: the moment Trump was impeached – in pictures

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Donald Trump became the third president in US history to be impeached on Wednesday 18 December. The moment offered a surreal split screen. In the House of Representatives, lawmakers voted solemnly, mostly along party lines, in favor of two articles of impeachment. Meanwhile in Michigan, Trump railed against the Democrats at a defiant rally. ‘They’re the ones that should be impeached, every one of them’, he told the crowd

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Trump’s impeachment may be just another battle in the US’s civil war

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Trump will be wounded, seething, hellbent on revenge – and turn the weight of impeachment against his foes in 2020

After Donald Trump’s inaugural address, George W Bush turned to Hillary Clinton and said: “Well, that was some weird shit,” the former secretary of state confirmed earlier this month.

For nearly three years since that chilly day here at the US Capitol in Washington, Democrats (and many others) have accused of Trump using and abusing the United States like his personal punchbag. On Wednesday, that slice of America finally punched back via impeachment.

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Republican congressman Mike Kelly compares impeachment inquiry to Pearl Harbor – video

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During the impeachment debate in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, Mike Kelly compared the impeachment vote to Pearl Harbor, predicting 18 December would be 'another date that will live in infamy,' referring to Roosevelt's famous quote about 7 December 1941. The debate will be followed by a vote on two articles of impeachment against Trump which, if approved, will send the matter to the Republican-led Senate to hold a trial on whether to remove him from office. The Senate is unlikely to vote to convict the president

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Republican congressman compares impeachment inquiry to trial of Jesus – video

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Barry Loudermilk made a comparison between the Trump impeachment inquiry and the trial of Jesus in the Bible during the impeachment debate in the House of Representatives on Wednesday. The Republican congressman argued that Pontius Pilate was fairer to Jesus than Democrats had been to the president. The debate will be followed by a vote on the articles of impeachment against Donald Trump

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Pelosi says Democrats have ‘no choice’ but to impeach Trump as she opens impeachment debate – video

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Nancy Pelosi has said Donald Trump gave Democrats 'no choice' but to impeach him. Opening the debate on the impeachment of the US president in the House of Representatives, the House Speaker said if politicians did not act now, they would be 'derelict in their duty'. The debate will be followed by a vote on two articles of impeachment against Trump which, if approved, will send the matter to the Republican-led Senate to hold a trial on whether to remove him from office. The Senate is unlikely to vote to convict the president

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Impeachment: Trump faces up to history as House prepares to vote

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As the president rages, Democrats in the House get ready to vote against him

No volume of howling by Donald Trump could prevent the shadow of history from falling over his White House on Wednesday, as the House of Representatives prepared to approve articles of impeachment against a president for only the third time.

Related: More than 700 historians call for Trump to be impeached as key vote looms

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Trump impeachment: protesters gather in Times Square on eve of vote – video

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Demonstrators gather in New York, Colorado and California to call for US president Donald Trump's removal from office on the eve of the House of Representatives' expected vote to impeach him. Demonstrators who were gathered in Times Square chanted slogans like 'impeach Trump' and held signs that read: 'Impeach & Remove' and 'Traitor Criminal Lock Him Up!' The House will vote on Wednesday on two articles of impeachment against the president, which if approved, will send the matter to the Senate to hold a trial on whether to remove him from office. The Republican-led Senate is unlikely to vote to convict the president



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Trump: I take zero responsibility for impeachment – video

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Speaking to reporters at the White House during an Oval Office meeting with Guatemalan president Jimmy Morales, US president Donald Trump said he's not planning on watching tomorrow's impeachment vote in the House of Representatives. He reiterated his claim that the process is a hoax and said he accepts 'zero' responsibility for the fact that he is undergoing the impeachment process, insisting that impeaching the president of the United States for a 'perfect' phone call was a 'disgrace'

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Five highlights from Trump’s angry, bizarre letter to Nancy Pelosi

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Trump claims in his missive – which he says historians will study one day – he’s been treated worse than those accused of witchcraft

On Tuesday, Donald Trump showed that it is not only through the spoken word or his Twitter account that he is able to raise eyebrows, when he sent an angry and frequently bizarre letter to House speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The six-page missive was remarkable for a number of reasons, not least for Trump’s claim he has been subjected to worse treatment than that endured by people accused of witchcraft in the 17th century.

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Trump writes blistering letter to House accusing leaders of ‘war on democracy’

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Letter is a thinly veiled attempt to redirect back impeachment inquiry’s findings he abused power and obstructed Congress

Donald Trump has accused Democratic leaders in the House of declaring “open war on American democracy”, on the eve of a historic vote that is likely to make him only the third president in US history to be impeached.

Trump issued the incendiary accusation in an intemperately-worded letter sent to the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, on Tuesday.

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