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Donald Trump set to return to the spotlight with CPAC speech

Fight over witnesses could delay Trump trial conclusion

10:57 pm February 13, 2021

Washington: Senators have voted to consider hearing from witnesses in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. The vote could potentially extend proceedings that had been expected to end with a vote on Saturday. A last-minute fight over calling witnesses threatened to slow the speedy conclusion of Donald Trump’s historic impeachment trial Saturday as the Senate moved closer to a […]

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Trump defenders take the impeachment stage to make his case

11:44 pm February 12, 2021

Washington: After a prosecution case rooted in emotive, violent images from the Capitol siege, Donald Trump’s impeachment trial shifts on Friday to defense lawyers prepared to make a fundamental concession: The violence was every bit as traumatic, unacceptable and illegal as Democrats say. But, they will say, Trump did not order it. Acknowledging the horrors of the […]

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Lawyer who defended Trump accustomed to political disaster

4:50 pm February 12, 2021

Washington: Bruce L Castor Jr answered his cellphone, but he had no time to talk. “I’m 12 minutes from prime time,” he said, before heading to the well of the US Senate to defend his client, Donald Trump, as one of two defence lawyers in the ex-president’s second impeachment trial. It may have marked the high point for […]

Analysis: Trump’s Senate trial matters regardless of outcome

8:00 pm February 7, 2021

Washington: This matters. The outcome may seem preordained in the unprecedented second impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Democrats prosecuting the former president for inciting a deadly insurrection at the US Capitol will struggle to persuade at least 17 Republicans to convict Trump and bar him from office. Forty-five of the 50 Republican senators backed a bid last month to dismiss the trial, essentially telegraphing how […]

Riot aftermath: Still-shaken lawmakers, troops stand guard

11:54 pm February 6, 2021

Washington: On Jan 6, the US Capitol was besieged by supporters of Donald Trump angered by the then-president’s election loss. While lawmakers inside the building were voting to affirm Democrat Joe Biden’s win, Trump loyalists were marching to Capitol Hill and breaking in. Five people died in the violent melee, including a police officer. Trump’s impeachment trial begins Tuesday on a charge that he incited the […]