Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial opened Tuesday with graphic video showing the former president whipping up a rally crowd to march to the Capitol and “fight like hell” against his reelection defeat, followed by images of the deadly attack on Congress that came soon after.
Former President Donald Trump was unhappy with his impeachment lawyer Bruce Castor's opening argument on the Senate floor Tuesday, two people familiar with his reaction told CNN.
The next week will offer the clearest window yet into the top contenders’ assessment of the party’s post-Trump landscape.
Former President Trump's second impeachment trial begins Tuesday.
Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial is starting, an undertaking like no other in U.S. history. The defeated former president stands charged by the House with inciting the deadly mob attack on the Capitol to overturn the election in what prosecutors argue is the “most grievous constitutional crime.”
The former president is confident both of his acquittal and that he’ll come out of the trial with an iron grip on the GOP.
Joe Biden took his oath of office Wednesday on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, the same spot where a mob staged a riot two weeks earlier to prevent him from becoming the 46th president.
"Democracy has prevailed," the nation's 46th president proclaimed.
Now that President Donald Trump has been impeached by the House of Representatives a second time, keeping him from holding office again could be Congress’ next step. Every House Democrat and 10 Republicans voted Wednesday to impeach Trump for his role in inciting last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol.
The House has just voted to impeach President Trump for the second time – making him the only US president to ever be impeached twice. The resolution passed 232 to 197.
The House on Wednesday impeached President Trump for inciting a violent insurrection against the United States government, as 10 members of the president’s party joined Democrats to charge him with high crimes and misdemeanors for an unprecedented second time.
The overall impeachment process laid out in the Constitution is relatively simple: President commits "high Crime or Misdemeanor," House votes to impeach, Senate conducts a trial.
The House is expected to impeach President Donald Trump on Wednesday for his encouragement of supporters who violently stormed the U.S. Capitol, a vote that would make him the first American presdent to be impeached twice.
The silent group isThe majority of Republican lawmakers have been silent about what, if anything, to do to President Trump after he helped incite a deadly invasion of the U.S. Capitol while lawmakers were confirming his election defeat. They’re not defending him as they usually do, but they’re not jumping to get him out of office, either.
Multiple House Republicans announced Tuesday evening they would support the impeachment of President Donald Trump for his role inciting last week's riot as congressional Republicans made their clearest break with Trump to date after he showed no remorse for the US Capitol mob.
Cheney, the third-highest-ranking Republican in the House, said there has never "been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States."
The House plans to hold an impeachment vote Wednesday, as Trump rejected any blame for the deadly riot at the Capitol.
The House was poised to formally call on Vice President Mike Pence to move to wrest power from the president, as Republican support built for impeaching him of inciting violence against the nation.
The first impeachment was a moral necessity. The second would be an act of pragmatism.
With President Trump hospitalized at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Wednesday’s debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris is surging in importance.