Former U.S. President Donald Trump will seek to return to the political spotlight in an address to a major meeting of conservatives, a source familiar with his plans said on Saturday, as the Republican plots his post-White House moves

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In a letter to Democratic colleagues, Pelosi said the House will also put forth supplemental spending to boost security at the Capitol.

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly parted ways on Saturday with the two lead lawyers working on his defense for his Senate impeachment trial, a source familiar with the situation said, leaving Trump's legal strategy in disarray.

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<p>Many Republicans who served former US President George W Bush's administration are now leaving the party.</p>

<p>Some of these officials held important portfolios during the Bush reign. Reuters reported that many of these leaders were disappointed in the failure by many Republicans to shut out former President Donald Trump who repeatedly claimed that the November 2020 election was fraudulent.&nbsp;</p>

<p>In the aftermath of these claims, Trump urged his supporters to march to the US Capitol, which ended in violent riots leaving five people, including a police officer dead.</p>

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<p>Many Republicans leaders told Reuters that they no longer feel&nbsp;the party represents what it once used to.</p>

<p>Many of these former Bush officials have ended their membership with the party, while others are letting it lapse. A few have reregistered as independents.&nbsp;<br />
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"The Republican Party as I knew it no longer exists. I’d call it the cult of Trump," Jimmy Gurulé, who was Undersecretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence in the Bush administration told Reuters.</p>

<p><strong>Also read:&nbsp;</strong><a href="http://13.235.153.162/world/trump-names-two-new-lawyers-to-lead-his-impeachment-defence-team-in-senate-trial-360485" hreflang="en">Trump names two new lawyers to lead his impeachment defence team in Senate trial</a></p>

<p>Another official - Kristopher Purcell, who worked in the communications department for Bush said that at least 60-70 former Bush officials have withdrawn from the party, and that the "number is growing every day".</p>

<p>In an interview given by The Republican National Committee's chair Ronna McDaniel to Fox Business, McDaniel claimed that the party is having a spat at the moment.</p>

<p>“We’re having a little bit of a spat right now. But we are going to come together. We have to”, McDaniel said.</p>

<p><strong>Also read:&nbsp;</strong><a href="http://13.235.153.162/world/top-trump-donor-funded-rally-that-preceded-us-capitol-riot-report-says-360337" hreflang="en">Top Trump donor funded rally that preceded US Capitol riot, report says</a></p>

<p>Many Republicans still support Trump, with many claiming that they would not support his impeachment, which would ensure that his conviction in the Senate trial does not happen.</p>

<p>On January 13, Donald Trump was impeached by the US House of Representatives, which is under Democrat control for "incitement of insurrection".</p>

<p>After this, Trump became the only US President to be impeached twice.<br />
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Many Republicans who served former US President George W Bush's administration are now leaving the party. Some of these officials held important portfolios during the Bush reign.

Many Republicans who served former US President George W Bush's administration are now leaving the party. Some of these officials held important portfolios during the Bush reign. Reuters reported that many of these leaders were disappointed in the failure by many Republicans to shut out former President Donald Trump who repeatedly claimed that the November 2020 election was fraudulent. In the aftermath of these claims, Trump urged his supporters to march to the US Capitol, which ended in violent riots leaving five people, including a police officer dead. Many Republicans leaders told Reuters that they no longer feel the party represents what it once used to. Many of these former Bush officials have ended their membership with the party, while others are letting it lapse. A few have reregistered as independents. "The Republican Party as I knew it no longer exists. I’d call it the cult of Trump," Jimmy Gurulé, who was Undersecretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence in the Bush administration told Reuters. Also read: Trump names two new lawyers to lead his impeachment defence team in Senate trial Another official - Kristopher Purcell, who worked in the communications department for Bush said that at least 60-70 former Bush officials have withdrawn from the party, and that the "number is growing every day". In an interview given by The Republican National Committee's chair Ronna McDaniel to Fox Business, McDaniel claimed that the party is having a spat at the moment. “We’re having a little bit of a spat right now. But we are going to come together. We have to”, McDaniel said. Also read: Top Trump donor funded rally that preceded US Capitol riot, report says Many Republicans still support Trump, with many claiming that they would not support his impeachment, which would ensure that his conviction in the Senate trial does not happen. On January 13, Donald Trump was impeached by the US House of Representatives, which is under Democrat control for "incitement of insurrection". After this, Trump became the only US President to be impeached twice.

Many former Bush officials are leaving Republican Party, calling it 'Trump cult'

<p>Senate Republicans rallied Tuesday against trying former President Donald Trump for “incitement of insurrection” at the Capitol, with only five members of his party joining Democrats in a vote to go forward with his impeachment trial.</p>

<p>By a vote of 55-45, the Senate narrowly killed a Republican effort to dismiss the proceeding as unconstitutional because Trump is no longer in office. But the numbers showed that loyal Republicans are again poised to spare him from conviction, this time despite his role in stirring up a mob that violently targeted lawmakers and the vice president Jan. 6 as Congress met to finalize the election.</p>

<p>“I think it’s pretty obvious from the vote today that it is extraordinarily unlikely that the president will be convicted,” said Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, one of the five Republicans who voted to proceed to trial. “Just do the math.”</p>

<p>It would take two-thirds of senators — 67 votes — to attain a conviction, meaning 17 Republicans would have to cross party lines to side with Democrats in finding Trump guilty. If they did, an additional vote to disqualify him from ever holding office again would take a simple majority.</p>

<p>Aside from Collins, the only Republicans who joined Democrats in voting to reject the constitutional objection and proceed were Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Patrick Toomey of Pennsylvania. All five had previously said they were open to hearing the House’s impeachment case, which was adopted in a bipartisan vote a week after the attack.</p>

<p>With the facts of the case still spilling forth and the meat of the trial delayed for two weeks, senators could change their views. Several Republicans who voted Tuesday to uphold the constitutional challenge, which would have effectively killed the trial, rushed afterward to clarify that they remained open-minded about the trial, which next convenes Feb. 9.</p>

<p>In the weeks since the attack, Trump has made no apology for his actions, including spreading falsehoods about election fraud and urging his supporters gathered outside the White House on Jan. 6 to march to the Capitol, confront members of Congress formalizing his election loss and “fight like hell.”</p>

<p>But most agreed that whatever window of possibility there had been for bipartisan condemnation of Trump by lawmakers who were evacuated from the Capitol amid the deadly assault was closing fast, as Republicans were reminded once again of Trump’s remarkable hold on their party and the risks of crossing him. The 10 House Republicans who broke with their party to support the impeachment charge are already facing an intense backlash, both at home and in Washington.</p>

<p>It appeared that Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, was among those making such a calculation. He had twice signaled in recent days — through advisers and then in a letter to colleagues — that he was open to convicting a former president he privately disdains, and he publicly asserted last week that Trump had “provoked” the mob.</p>

<p>But if McConnell was trying to soften the ground for a faction of Republicans to abandon Trump and jettison him from the party, it had become increasingly clear that no such coalition was emerging.</p>

<p>When his fellow Kentuckian Sen. Rand Paul lodged a constitutional objection to the proceeding minutes after the Senate convened as a court of impeachment, McConnell voted with the vast majority of his conference in favor of the challenge.</p>

<p>It seemed to be a recognition that Republicans were not so keen to move on from Trump, whether out of fear of his promises of retribution and his overwhelming popularity with the party’s core supporters, or out of a belief that the fight was simply not worth having.</p>

<p>Democrats feared something more conspiratorial, pointing out that it was McConnell who, as majority leader, refused Democrats’ entreaties to begin the impeachment trial two weeks ago, when Trump was still president. On Tuesday, the Republican leader turned around and sided with Paul’s argument that trying a former president was unconstitutional.</p>

<p>McConnell made no public comment about his views of the vote nor did he speak up on the matter during a private Republican luncheon beforehand, according to people familiar with the session.</p>

<p>The showdown caught many senators off guard on a day that they expected to be devoted largely to the carefully scripted ceremony and logistics of a trial.</p>

<p>Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the Senate president pro tempore, was sworn in as the presiding officer and then asked all 100 senators to take an oath to administer “impartial justice” during the trial. Senators were warned by the sergeant-at-arms “on pain of imprisonment” to remain silent.</p>

<p>It was then that Paul, an outspoken defender of Trump, lodged his formal objection.</p>

<p>“Private citizens don’t get impeached," Paul had said a short time earlier, calling the trial "deranged" and vindictive. "Impeachment is for removal from office, and the accused here has already left office.”</p>

<p>Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the majority leader, quickly moved to shut down the request.</p>

<p>“The theory that the impeachment of a former official is unconstitutional is flat-out wrong by every frame of analysis,” Schumer said. “It has been completely debunked by constitutional scholars from all across the political spectrum.”</p>

<p>The Senate has clearly taken that position in the past. In 1876, as the House was preparing to impeach him on corruption charges, William Belknap, Ulysses S. Grant’s secretary of war, hurried to the White House, where he tendered his resignation in tears just before Congress could act. The House proceeded anyway, and when the case arrived in the Senate, a majority of the body decided that it retained jurisdiction to hear it, notwithstanding Belknap’s departure from office.</p>

<p>Support for a constitutional argument against holding the trial had been growing in the Senate in recent days, particularly among Republicans who showed little interest in mounting any substantive defense of Trump’s conduct. But the overwhelming level of Republican support exceeded what almost anyone was expecting.</p>

<p>Paul declared victory, saying, “Forty-five votes means the impeachment trial is dead on arrival.”</p>

<p>Murkowski, who has praised the House’s move to impeach and called Trump’s actions “unlawful,” reluctantly agreed. She told reporters that she feared that it would be impossible for most of her Republican colleagues to truly consider supporting a conviction after they had put themselves on record arguing that the trial should not even take place.</p>

<p>“That’s why I thought it was a little unfortunate that we had this very spontaneous vote on an extraordinarily significant matter without the considered debate and analysis,” she said. “People had to make really quick decisions.”</p>

<p>But other Republicans said their votes to uphold Paul’s objection should not be read as opposition to hearing the case against Trump.</p>

<p>Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio said that he voted with Paul because he wanted a “fulsome discussion” on the issue of constitutionality, not necessarily to kill the trial.</p>

<p>“I’ve not made my mind up,” he said. “I’m a juror.”</p>

<p>He and Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the Republican whip, suggested McConnell might feel the same way.</p>

<p>“I don’t think it binds anybody once the trial starts,” Thune said.</p>

<p>Far from settled, the argument over constitutionality will reappear when the trial reconvenes in February, when senators may seek to use it as justification for voting to acquit. The House managers have already begun preparing a constitutional justification for proceeding, and Trump’s lawyers will be asked to argue the opposite as a key plank of their defense.</p>

<p>The debate arises from the fact that the Constitution does not explicitly discuss impeachments of former officials or instruct Congress how to handle a case like Trump’s, in which the president was impeached while still in office but was not put on trial until after his term expired.</p>

<p>Senate Republicans have embraced a legal theory that argues that the document’s silence means the Senate does not have authority to try former officials whatsoever, even if the first stage of the process, impeachment, took place before they left.</p>

<p>Just before the vote, McConnell had invited Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor, to speak about the constitutional debate at the regularly scheduled Republican luncheon. Turley has taken a more nuanced position than some who argue trying a former official is strictly unconstitutional. He argues instead that it is “constitutionally unsound” to proceed and could set a dangerous precedent whereby a Congress of one party could go about charging and punishing the leaders of another at whim.</p>

<p>But other leading constitutional scholars say that view is backward, and a trial of a former official — particularly one who just left office — is entirely consistent with the framers’ intentions to hold public officials accountable. If it was not, they argue, officials could routinely commit high crimes and misdemeanors in their final weeks and months in office, confident they would avoid punishment.</p>

<p>“If an official could only be disqualified while he or she still held office, then an official who betrayed the public trust and was impeached could avoid accountability simply by resigning one minute before the Senate’s final conviction vote,” a group of 150 prominent legal scholars, including a founder of the conservative Federalist Society, wrote last week. “The framers did not design the Constitution’s checks and balances to be so easily undermined. History supports a reading of the Constitution that allows Congress to impeach, try, convict and disqualify former officers.”</p>


Senate Republicans rallied Tuesday against trying former President Donald Trump for “incitement of insurrection” at the Capitol, with only five members of his party joining Democrats in a vote to go forward with his impeachment trial.

Senate Republicans rallied Tuesday against trying former President Donald Trump for “incitement of insurrection” at the Capitol, with only five members of his party joining Democrats in a vote to go forward with his impeachment trial. By a vote of 55-45, the Senate narrowly killed a Republican effort to dismiss the proceeding as unconstitutional because Trump is no longer in office. But the numbers showed that loyal Republicans are again poised to spare him from conviction, this time despite his role in stirring up a mob that violently targeted lawmakers and the vice president Jan. 6 as Congress met to finalize the election. “I think it’s pretty obvious from the vote today that it is extraordinarily unlikely that the president will be convicted,” said Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, one of the five Republicans who voted to proceed to trial. “Just do the math.” It would take two-thirds of senators — 67 votes — to attain a conviction, meaning 17 Republicans would have to cross party lines to side with Democrats in finding Trump guilty. If they did, an additional vote to disqualify him from ever holding office again would take a simple majority. Aside from Collins, the only Republicans who joined Democrats in voting to reject the constitutional objection and proceed were Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Patrick Toomey of Pennsylvania. All five had previously said they were open to hearing the House’s impeachment case, which was adopted in a bipartisan vote a week after the attack. With the facts of the case still spilling forth and the meat of the trial delayed for two weeks, senators could change their views. Several Republicans who voted Tuesday to uphold the constitutional challenge, which would have effectively killed the trial, rushed afterward to clarify that they remained open-minded about the trial, which next convenes Feb. 9. In the weeks since the attack, Trump has made no apology for his actions, including spreading falsehoods about election fraud and urging his supporters gathered outside the White House on Jan. 6 to march to the Capitol, confront members of Congress formalizing his election loss and “fight like hell.” But most agreed that whatever window of possibility there had been for bipartisan condemnation of Trump by lawmakers who were evacuated from the Capitol amid the deadly assault was closing fast, as Republicans were reminded once again of Trump’s remarkable hold on their party and the risks of crossing him. The 10 House Republicans who broke with their party to support the impeachment charge are already facing an intense backlash, both at home and in Washington. It appeared that Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, was among those making such a calculation. He had twice signaled in recent days — through advisers and then in a letter to colleagues — that he was open to convicting a former president he privately disdains, and he publicly asserted last week that Trump had “provoked” the mob. But if McConnell was trying to soften the ground for a faction of Republicans to abandon Trump and jettison him from the party, it had become increasingly clear that no such coalition was emerging. When his fellow Kentuckian Sen. Rand Paul lodged a constitutional objection to the proceeding minutes after the Senate convened as a court of impeachment, McConnell voted with the vast majority of his conference in favor of the challenge. It seemed to be a recognition that Republicans were not so keen to move on from Trump, whether out of fear of his promises of retribution and his overwhelming popularity with the party’s core supporters, or out of a belief that the fight was simply not worth having. Democrats feared something more conspiratorial, pointing out that it was McConnell who, as majority leader, refused Democrats’ entreaties to begin the impeachment trial two weeks ago, when Trump was still president. On Tuesday, the Republican leader turned around and sided with Paul’s argument that trying a former president was unconstitutional. McConnell made no public comment about his views of the vote nor did he speak up on the matter during a private Republican luncheon beforehand, according to people familiar with the session. The showdown caught many senators off guard on a day that they expected to be devoted largely to the carefully scripted ceremony and logistics of a trial. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the Senate president pro tempore, was sworn in as the presiding officer and then asked all 100 senators to take an oath to administer “impartial justice” during the trial. Senators were warned by the sergeant-at-arms “on pain of imprisonment” to remain silent. It was then that Paul, an outspoken defender of Trump, lodged his formal objection. “Private citizens don’t get impeached," Paul had said a short time earlier, calling the trial "deranged" and vindictive. "Impeachment is for removal from office, and the accused here has already left office.” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the majority leader, quickly moved to shut down the request. “The theory that the impeachment of a former official is unconstitutional is flat-out wrong by every frame of analysis,” Schumer said. “It has been completely debunked by constitutional scholars from all across the political spectrum.” The Senate has clearly taken that position in the past. In 1876, as the House was preparing to impeach him on corruption charges, William Belknap, Ulysses S. Grant’s secretary of war, hurried to the White House, where he tendered his resignation in tears just before Congress could act. The House proceeded anyway, and when the case arrived in the Senate, a majority of the body decided that it retained jurisdiction to hear it, notwithstanding Belknap’s departure from office. Support for a constitutional argument against holding the trial had been growing in the Senate in recent days, particularly among Republicans who showed little interest in mounting any substantive defense of Trump’s conduct. But the overwhelming level of Republican support exceeded what almost anyone was expecting. Paul declared victory, saying, “Forty-five votes means the impeachment trial is dead on arrival.” Murkowski, who has praised the House’s move to impeach and called Trump’s actions “unlawful,” reluctantly agreed. She told reporters that she feared that it would be impossible for most of her Republican colleagues to truly consider supporting a conviction after they had put themselves on record arguing that the trial should not even take place. “That’s why I thought it was a little unfortunate that we had this very spontaneous vote on an extraordinarily significant matter without the considered debate and analysis,” she said. “People had to make really quick decisions.” But other Republicans said their votes to uphold Paul’s objection should not be read as opposition to hearing the case against Trump. Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio said that he voted with Paul because he wanted a “fulsome discussion” on the issue of constitutionality, not necessarily to kill the trial. “I’ve not made my mind up,” he said. “I’m a juror.” He and Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the Republican whip, suggested McConnell might feel the same way. “I don’t think it binds anybody once the trial starts,” Thune said. Far from settled, the argument over constitutionality will reappear when the trial reconvenes in February, when senators may seek to use it as justification for voting to acquit. The House managers have already begun preparing a constitutional justification for proceeding, and Trump’s lawyers will be asked to argue the opposite as a key plank of their defense. The debate arises from the fact that the Constitution does not explicitly discuss impeachments of former officials or instruct Congress how to handle a case like Trump’s, in which the president was impeached while still in office but was not put on trial until after his term expired. Senate Republicans have embraced a legal theory that argues that the document’s silence means the Senate does not have authority to try former officials whatsoever, even if the first stage of the process, impeachment, took place before they left. Just before the vote, McConnell had invited Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor, to speak about the constitutional debate at the regularly scheduled Republican luncheon. Turley has taken a more nuanced position than some who argue trying a former official is strictly unconstitutional. He argues instead that it is “constitutionally unsound” to proceed and could set a dangerous precedent whereby a Congress of one party could go about charging and punishing the leaders of another at whim. But other leading constitutional scholars say that view is backward, and a trial of a former official — particularly one who just left office — is entirely consistent with the framers’ intentions to hold public officials accountable. If it was not, they argue, officials could routinely commit high crimes and misdemeanors in their final weeks and months in office, confident they would avoid punishment. “If an official could only be disqualified while he or she still held office, then an official who betrayed the public trust and was impeached could avoid accountability simply by resigning one minute before the Senate’s final conviction vote,” a group of 150 prominent legal scholars, including a founder of the conservative Federalist Society, wrote last week. “The framers did not design the Constitution’s checks and balances to be so easily undermined. History supports a reading of the Constitution that allows Congress to impeach, try, convict and disqualify former officers.”

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<p>As the US gets a new leader with Joe Biden taking over as the President of the United States of America, model and TV celebrity Chrissy Teigen seems&nbsp;the happiest.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Known publicly for her ugly war of words with the outgoing president Donald Trump, Chrissy is very happy at Joe Biden taking over. Taking to Instagram to slam Donald Trump, she wrote, "With two impeachments, the creation of 3 million LESS jobs, 403,000 dead, a record low approval rating and god knows how many crimes, we can officially say Donald J. Trump is the greatest at being the f---ing worst.” <a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/us-inauguration-day-2021-live-updates-joe-biden-oath-ceremony-today-donald-trump-leave-white-house-vice-president-elect-kamala-harris-us-president-joe-biden-swearing-in-ceremony-oath-day-357872">Read live updates from the ceremony here.&nbsp;</a></p>

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<p>Continuing in her effortless sarcastic style of commentary, she further said, “Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to have the guy with barely enough well done steak with ketchup fueled brainpower to power a lightbulb who doesn’t even know how to close an umbrella run the country.”</p>

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<p>"History will not be kind to you, you absolute psychopath," she added.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.wionews.com/entertainment/lady-gaga-asks-for-peace-love-at-the-capitol-ahead-of-biden-harris-inauguration-358067" hreflang="en">Lady Gaga asks for 'peace, love' at the Capitol ahead of Biden-Harris inauguration</a></p>

<p>Chrissy Teigen's post had a picture of herself in front of the Washington Monument. Chrissy is with husband John Legend attending the inauguration. Her singer husband is set to perform at Joe Biden's inaugural TV special.</p>


As the US gets a new leader with Joe Biden taking over as the President of the United States of America, model and TV celebrity Chrissy Teigen seems the happiest.

As the US gets a new leader with Joe Biden taking over as the President of the United States of America, model and TV celebrity Chrissy Teigen seems the happiest. Known publicly for her ugly war of words with the outgoing president Donald Trump, Chrissy is very happy at Joe Biden taking over. Taking to Instagram to slam Donald Trump, she wrote, "With two impeachments, the creation of 3 million LESS jobs, 403,000 dead, a record low approval rating and god knows how many crimes, we can officially say Donald J. Trump is the greatest at being the f---ing worst.” Read live updates from the ceremony here. View this post on Instagram A post shared by chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) × Continuing in her effortless sarcastic style of commentary, she further said, “Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to have the guy with barely enough well done steak with ketchup fueled brainpower to power a lightbulb who doesn’t even know how to close an umbrella run the country.” Joe Biden Inauguration 2021: How to watch US oath-taking ceremony LIVE online "History will not be kind to you, you absolute psychopath," she added. Lady Gaga asks for 'peace, love' at the Capitol ahead of Biden-Harris inauguration Chrissy Teigen's post had a picture of herself in front of the Washington Monument. Chrissy is with husband John Legend attending the inauguration. Her singer husband is set to perform at Joe Biden's inaugural TV special.

Chrissy Teigen calls Trump 'psychopath': History will not be kind to you

U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black who were prosecuted on federal weapons offenses as part of a wave of pardons and commutations he will issue during his final hours in office, according to a source familiar with the discussions.

Trump pardons rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black

Washington, DC, police officers are speaking out following a riot at the US Capitol which resulted in five deaths.

Washington D.C. police officers describe siege of U.S. Capitol hill | World News

<p>US&nbsp;President-elect Joe Biden will wait for a recommendation from his intelligence advisers on whether to share classified information with President Donald Trump after the Republican leaves office, Biden`s top aide said on Sunday.<br />
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Ron Klain, the incoming White House chief of staff, made the comment after former principal deputy director of national intelligence, Sue Gordon, wrote an op-ed arguing against sharing such information with Trump once he has left the presidency.<br />
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"With this simple act — which is solely the new president’s prerogative — Joe Biden can mitigate one aspect of the potential national security risk posed by Donald Trump, private citizen," Gordon said in a Washington Post piece headlined "A former president Trump won`t `need to know.` Cut off his intelligence."<br />
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Asked about Gordon`s recommendation, Klain told CNN`s "State of the Union" program that Biden would want to hear from his own intelligence professionals before making any decision.<br />
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"We`ll certainly look for a recommendation from the intelligence professionals in the Biden administration ... and we will act on that recommendation," he said.<br />
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Gordon, who resigned in 2019, said any former president was a foreign intelligence target but Trump "might be unusually vulnerable to bad actors with ill intent," citing, among other things, his business interests abroad.<br />
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"It is not clear that he understands the tradecraft to which he has been exposed, the reasons the knowledge he has acquired must be protected from disclosure, or the intentions and capabilities of adversaries," she added.<br />
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Democratic House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff was more blunt, telling CBS` "Face The Nation" program, "I don`t think he can be trusted with it."</p>


US President-elect Joe Biden will wait for a recommendation from his intelligence advisers on whether to share classified information with President Donald Trump after the Republican leaves office, Biden`s top aide said on Sunday.

US President-elect Joe Biden will wait for a recommendation from his intelligence advisers on whether to share classified information with President Donald Trump after the Republican leaves office, Biden`s top aide said on Sunday. Ron Klain, the incoming White House chief of staff, made the comment after former principal deputy director of national intelligence, Sue Gordon, wrote an op-ed arguing against sharing such information with Trump once he has left the presidency. "With this simple act — which is solely the new president’s prerogative — Joe Biden can mitigate one aspect of the potential national security risk posed by Donald Trump, private citizen," Gordon said in a Washington Post piece headlined "A former president Trump won`t `need to know.` Cut off his intelligence." Asked about Gordon`s recommendation, Klain told CNN`s "State of the Union" program that Biden would want to hear from his own intelligence professionals before making any decision. "We`ll certainly look for a recommendation from the intelligence professionals in the Biden administration ... and we will act on that recommendation," he said. Gordon, who resigned in 2019, said any former president was a foreign intelligence target but Trump "might be unusually vulnerable to bad actors with ill intent," citing, among other things, his business interests abroad. "It is not clear that he understands the tradecraft to which he has been exposed, the reasons the knowledge he has acquired must be protected from disclosure, or the intentions and capabilities of adversaries," she added. Democratic House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff was more blunt, telling CBS` "Face The Nation" program, "I don`t think he can be trusted with it."

Biden will wait for recommendation on sharing secrets with Trump

<p>In the aftermath of the violence which rocked US Capitol on January 6, federal authorities have been working to identify and charge the rioters. President Donald Trump is facing a second impeachment owing to his role in leading protesters to the Capitol.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Now, his supporters who stormed the Capitol are seeking formal pardons from the incumbent president before he leaves office in over three days.</p>

<p>Among them is Jenna Ryan, a real estate agent from Texas who took a private jet to Washington to participate in the riots.</p>

<p>After facing arrest by federal authorities, she hopes Trump will pardon her, and many like her.</p>

<p>“We all deserve a pardon”, she reportedly said after surrendering to the FBI on Friday.</p>

<p>In conversation with CBS, she added that she was facing a prison sentence, and that she does not “deserve that”. “I would ask the president of the United States to give me a pardon”, she added.</p>

<p>The attack on US Capitol on January 6 left five people dead, including a police officer.</p>

<p>According to Ryan, she was “displaying” her patriotism at the Capitol, claiming that she was simply listening to her president who told them “to go to the Capitol”.</p>

<p><strong>Also read:&nbsp;</strong><a href="http://13.235.153.162/world/a-man-with-a-gun-arrested-by-capitol-police-calls-it-an-honest-mistake-357287" hreflang="en">A man with a gun arrested by Capitol Police calls it an ‘honest mistake’</a></p>

<p>Just before the attack, Ryan said the following in a Facebook video - “We’re gonna go down and storm the Capitol. They’re down there right now and that’s why we came and so that’s what we are going to do. So wish me luck.”</p>

<p>“Life or death, it doesn’t matter. Here we go”, her video added.</p>

<p>“We just stormed the Capital [sic]. It was one of the best days of my life”, she tweeted later.</p>

<p><strong>Also read:&nbsp;</strong><a href="http://13.235.153.162/world/far-right-activist-baked-alaska-among-latest-capitol-rioters-arrested-357271" hreflang="en">Far-right activist ‘Baked Alaska’ among latest Capitol rioters arrested</a></p>

<p>Another person - Jacob Chansley who became the most recognisable rioters for his attire including horns, animal skin, and face pain is seeking a pardon as well.<br />
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One of his lawyers, Albert Watkins said that the “honourable thing” to do would be to pardon those who had accepted the “president’s invitation”, The Guardian quoted him as saying.</p>

<p>Chansley currently faces six federal charges.</p>


In the aftermath of the violence which rocked US Capitol on January 6, federal authorities have been working to identify and charge the rioters. President Donald Trump is facing a second impeachment owing to his role in leading protesters to the Capitol.

In the aftermath of the violence which rocked US Capitol on January 6, federal authorities have been working to identify and charge the rioters. President Donald Trump is facing a second impeachment owing to his role in leading protesters to the Capitol. Now, his supporters who stormed the Capitol are seeking formal pardons from the incumbent president before he leaves office in over three days. Among them is Jenna Ryan, a real estate agent from Texas who took a private jet to Washington to participate in the riots. After facing arrest by federal authorities, she hopes Trump will pardon her, and many like her. “We all deserve a pardon”, she reportedly said after surrendering to the FBI on Friday. In conversation with CBS, she added that she was facing a prison sentence, and that she does not “deserve that”. “I would ask the president of the United States to give me a pardon”, she added. The attack on US Capitol on January 6 left five people dead, including a police officer. According to Ryan, she was “displaying” her patriotism at the Capitol, claiming that she was simply listening to her president who told them “to go to the Capitol”. Also read: A man with a gun arrested by Capitol Police calls it an ‘honest mistake’ Just before the attack, Ryan said the following in a Facebook video - “We’re gonna go down and storm the Capitol. They’re down there right now and that’s why we came and so that’s what we are going to do. So wish me luck.” “Life or death, it doesn’t matter. Here we go”, her video added. “We just stormed the Capital [sic]. It was one of the best days of my life”, she tweeted later. Also read: Far-right activist ‘Baked Alaska’ among latest Capitol rioters arrested Another person - Jacob Chansley who became the most recognisable rioters for his attire including horns, animal skin, and face pain is seeking a pardon as well. One of his lawyers, Albert Watkins said that the “honourable thing” to do would be to pardon those who had accepted the “president’s invitation”, The Guardian quoted him as saying. Chansley currently faces six federal charges.

Rioters who attacked US Capitol seek pardons from President Trump

<p>American actress Kirstie Alley stoked a debate online after she equated Donald Trump’s Twitter ban with “slavery”.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Over the weekend, after it was announced that Trump was banned from Twitter, she outraged and shared a tweet containing a statement made by American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Kate Ruane. In the tweet, ‘Cheers’ actress said, “It should concern everyone when companies like Facebook and Twitter wield the unchecked power to remove people from platforms that have become indispensable for the speech of billions.”</p>

<p>“ALL people should be concerned is the KEY here,” Alley wrote in her own tweet. “It’s true, the average person will no longer have a platform to speak their views. This is called SLAVERY. This censorship proves BIG TECH now holds the keys to the chains.”</p>

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<p>The statement within seconds started getting attention and not in the manner she must have expected. Twitterati slammed her choice of words as one user said, “This is a shocking minimization of the sheer vicious brutality of real slavery,” while others “shamed” her for equating the two.</p>

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<p>Kirstie Alley was majorly called “tone deaf” for her Twitter statement on Donald Trump’s ban on the same social media platform.</p>

<p>The actress Kirstie Alley has previously voiced support for <a href="https://www.wionews.com/topics/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Twitter along with other social media channels banned Trump after the US Capitol was mobbed by Trump supporters -- wearing hats with his slogan and waving flags with his name -- who overwhelmed the security forces.</p>


American actress Kirstie Alley stoked a debate online after she equated Donald Trump’s Twitter ban with “slavery”. Over the weekend, after it was announced that Trump was banned from Twitter, she outraged and shared a tweet containing a statement made by American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Kate Ruane.

American actress Kirstie Alley stoked a debate online after she equated Donald Trump’s Twitter ban with “slavery”. Over the weekend, after it was announced that Trump was banned from Twitter, she outraged and shared a tweet containing a statement made by American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Kate Ruane. In the tweet, ‘Cheers’ actress said, “It should concern everyone when companies like Facebook and Twitter wield the unchecked power to remove people from platforms that have become indispensable for the speech of billions.” “ALL people should be concerned is the KEY here,” Alley wrote in her own tweet. “It’s true, the average person will no longer have a platform to speak their views. This is called SLAVERY. This censorship proves BIG TECH now holds the keys to the chains.” Celebrities who supported Donald Trump in US Elections 2020 The statement within seconds started getting attention and not in the manner she must have expected. Twitterati slammed her choice of words as one user said, “This is a shocking minimization of the sheer vicious brutality of real slavery,” while others “shamed” her for equating the two. Hey @jack Why didn’t you suspend these four people’s accounts for inciting riots for months? 30 people died..billions of property destroyed .. millions terrorized ? Bueller Bueller? https://t.co/fWEQqOpcAM — Kirstie Alley (@kirstiealley) January 9, 2021 × Kirstie Alley was majorly called “tone deaf” for her Twitter statement on Donald Trump’s ban on the same social media platform. The actress Kirstie Alley has previously voiced support for Donald Trump. Twitter along with other social media channels banned Trump after the US Capitol was mobbed by Trump supporters -- wearing hats with his slogan and waving flags with his name -- who overwhelmed the security forces.

US actress Kirstie Alley slammed for equating Donald Trump's Twitter ban to 'slavery'

<p>Barely 11 months after President Donald Trump was acquitted in a momentous Senate trial, the nation now confronts the possibility of yet another impeachment battle in the twilight of his presidency, a final showdown that will test the boundaries of politics, accountability and the Constitution.</p>

<p>No president has ever been impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors twice. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was weighing bringing a new article of impeachment to the House floor as early as Monday charging Trump with “incitement of insurrection” for encouraging the mob that ransacked the Capitol to disrupt the solemn process finishing his own election defeat.</p>

<p>If Pelosi proceeds, the House could approve the article in days, this time with the support of even some disaffected Republicans, sending it to the Senate for a new trial unlike any of the previous three in American history.</p>

<p>While it seemed unlikely that 17 Senate Republicans would join Democrats for the two-thirds majority necessary for conviction, the anger at Trump was so palpable that party leaders said privately it was not out of the question.</p>

<p>The fresh bid to remove Trump from office and strip him of his power without waiting until his term expires Jan. 20 capped a traumatic week that rattled Washington more than any since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as National Guard troops stood watch over the Capitol and downtown businesses remained boarded up.</p>

<p>Emotions were raw. The White House was in meltdown. The military was on edge. The Cabinet was in revolt. The Republican Party was in civil war. And an unrepentant president was in hiding, stripped of his social media bullhorn, ostracized by many allies and at odds even with his staff and loyal vice president.</p>

<p>The storming of the Capitol by Trump’s supporters that left five people dead, among them a police officer, transformed the politics of the city in ways that were still hard to measure. A new impeachment would be more than a do-over of the drive that failed last year because this time the offense was not a phone call to a foreign leader captured on the dry pages of a transcript but the siege of American democracy played out live on television for all to see.</p>

<p>“Insurrectionists incited by Mr. Trump attacked our nation’s Capitol to stop Congress from accepting the Electoral College results,” said Rep. Ted Lieu of California, who began drafting the article of impeachment with Rep. David Cicilline of Rhode Island while sheltering during the Capitol takeover and was later joined by Jamie Raskin of Maryland. “People died. We cannot just issue sternly worded press releases as a response. Unless Trump resigns, Congress must impeach to hold him accountable.”</p>

<p>Yet the timing of such an effort, with just 11 days until Trump is to leave office, scrambled the equation. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, indicated that under Senate rules a trial could not begin until Jan. 19, the day before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, meaning the process would not advance quickly enough to avert any feared dangerous moves in Trump’s last days in power.</p>

<p>That raised the prospect of conducting a trial after Trump vacates the White House, overshadowing the opening days of Biden’s administration at a time when he would like to turn the page and confront crises like the coronavirus pandemic, which has grown even deadlier while attention has focused on Washington’s political wars. A nationally televised trial could dominate discussion and would prevent other business in the Senate.</p>

<p>“If the House does send articles of impeachment over, they really get the Biden administration off to a bad start,” Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said in an interview Saturday. “Whether that’s the first 10 days or the first 20 days of the Biden administration, it’s certainly not how you’d want to start your presidency off.”</p>

<p>Some of Trump’s critics argued that it would be important to hold a trial even if he is already out of power in order to bar him from ever seeking office again, a penalty envisioned by the Constitution — and perhaps more important, to render a verdict condemning his actions for the sake of history.</p>

<p>“We’ve never had to consider even the possibility of impeaching a president twice, or in the final days of his presidency,” said Michael J. Gerhardt, a constitutional scholar at the University of North Carolina who testified in Trump’s first impeachment and favors another trial. “But we’ve never had a president before who’s encouraging sedition as Trump has done in his last few days in office.”</p>

<p>Yet even some of the president’s harshest critics worried that a last-minute impeachment and an overtime trial could help him rally supporters by presenting himself as a victim not a villain, allowing him to turn the focus from his own actions to those of his opponents.</p>

<p>“It historically will be important,” said Andrew Weissmann, who was a deputy to special counsel Robert Mueller and recently published a book, “Where Law Ends,” expressing frustration that the president was not held fully accountable for his actions during the Russia investigation. “But the danger is he is acquitted and the momentum of condemnation now is lost. Plus, until we change the mentality of his base, we have not gotten at the underlying issue.”</p>

<p>At the moment, a strong majority of Americans holds Trump responsible for the attack, with 63% saying he has a good amount or even a great deal of blame, according to a PBS Newshour-Marist poll. But when asked whether steps should be taken to remove him from office as a result, Americans retreated to their partisan corners, with 48% saying yes and 49% saying no.</p>

<p>A Reuters-Ipsos survey found that 57% of Americans want Trump to leave office right away. But most of them favored removal by Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet through the disability clause of the 25th Amendment, with just 14% calling for another impeachment.</p>

<p>Trump has few defenders among Republican officeholders for exhorting the crowd before it marched on the Capitol and even some in the conservative news media turned on him, most notably The Wall Street Journal editorial page, which called his actions “impeachable” and urged him to resign.</p>

<p>Sen. Patrick Toomey of Pennsylvania, told Fox News on Saturday that “the president committed impeachable offenses,” joining at least three other Senate Republicans who have called on Trump to resign, expressed openness to impeachment or voted for conviction last year.</p>

<p>But in the face of impeachment threats, some Republicans began taking up the fight against his opponents again. They may not like Trump or believe it is politically viable to be seen as excusing his behavior but many are still energized by battling his enemies on the left.</p>

<p>On Sean Hannity’s Fox News program Friday night, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who was accosted by Trump supporters at an airport for opposing the president’s efforts to overturn the election, was suddenly back to castigating Trump’s rivals and talking about Hunter Biden.</p>

<p>Graham focused on Trump’s video message Thursday calling for healing and reconciliation, a video the president privately expressed regret for making. “Instead of trying to match what President Trump has done, the radical Democrats are talking about another impeachment that will destroy the country even further,” Graham said.</p>

<p>Still, Trump might have a challenge finding lawyers to defend him in any trial. Jay Sekulow, who was a leader of the defense team in the impeachment trial last year, called the idea of a second impeachment a “gigantic mistake” by Democrats during a radio show, but has not participated in Trump’s legal efforts to overturn Biden’s election and did not respond to a message asking if he would represent the president again. Pat A. Cipollone, the White House counsel who teamed up with Sekulow, has been so upset about the Capitol attack that he has considered resigning.</p>

<p>One of the few members of his defense team who said he would stick with the president was Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School emeritus professor who had a secondary role last time. In an email Saturday, he said he would defend Trump on free expression grounds.</p>

<p>“Trump’s speech, whatever one may think of it on the merits, is clearly protected by the First Amendment,” he said. “To impeach him for a constitutionally protected speech would violate both the First Amendment and the constitutional criteria for impeachment and would do enduring damage to the Constitution.”</p>


Barely 11 months after President Donald Trump was acquitted in a momentous Senate trial, the nation now confronts the possibility of yet another impeachment battle in the twilight of his presidency, a final showdown that will test the boundaries of politics, accountability and the Constitution.

Barely 11 months after President Donald Trump was acquitted in a momentous Senate trial, the nation now confronts the possibility of yet another impeachment battle in the twilight of his presidency, a final showdown that will test the boundaries of politics, accountability and the Constitution. No president has ever been impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors twice. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was weighing bringing a new article of impeachment to the House floor as early as Monday charging Trump with “incitement of insurrection” for encouraging the mob that ransacked the Capitol to disrupt the solemn process finishing his own election defeat. If Pelosi proceeds, the House could approve the article in days, this time with the support of even some disaffected Republicans, sending it to the Senate for a new trial unlike any of the previous three in American history. While it seemed unlikely that 17 Senate Republicans would join Democrats for the two-thirds majority necessary for conviction, the anger at Trump was so palpable that party leaders said privately it was not out of the question. The fresh bid to remove Trump from office and strip him of his power without waiting until his term expires Jan. 20 capped a traumatic week that rattled Washington more than any since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as National Guard troops stood watch over the Capitol and downtown businesses remained boarded up. Emotions were raw. The White House was in meltdown. The military was on edge. The Cabinet was in revolt. The Republican Party was in civil war. And an unrepentant president was in hiding, stripped of his social media bullhorn, ostracized by many allies and at odds even with his staff and loyal vice president. The storming of the Capitol by Trump’s supporters that left five people dead, among them a police officer, transformed the politics of the city in ways that were still hard to measure. A new impeachment would be more than a do-over of the drive that failed last year because this time the offense was not a phone call to a foreign leader captured on the dry pages of a transcript but the siege of American democracy played out live on television for all to see. “Insurrectionists incited by Mr. Trump attacked our nation’s Capitol to stop Congress from accepting the Electoral College results,” said Rep. Ted Lieu of California, who began drafting the article of impeachment with Rep. David Cicilline of Rhode Island while sheltering during the Capitol takeover and was later joined by Jamie Raskin of Maryland. “People died. We cannot just issue sternly worded press releases as a response. Unless Trump resigns, Congress must impeach to hold him accountable.” Yet the timing of such an effort, with just 11 days until Trump is to leave office, scrambled the equation. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, indicated that under Senate rules a trial could not begin until Jan. 19, the day before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, meaning the process would not advance quickly enough to avert any feared dangerous moves in Trump’s last days in power. That raised the prospect of conducting a trial after Trump vacates the White House, overshadowing the opening days of Biden’s administration at a time when he would like to turn the page and confront crises like the coronavirus pandemic, which has grown even deadlier while attention has focused on Washington’s political wars. A nationally televised trial could dominate discussion and would prevent other business in the Senate. “If the House does send articles of impeachment over, they really get the Biden administration off to a bad start,” Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said in an interview Saturday. “Whether that’s the first 10 days or the first 20 days of the Biden administration, it’s certainly not how you’d want to start your presidency off.” Some of Trump’s critics argued that it would be important to hold a trial even if he is already out of power in order to bar him from ever seeking office again, a penalty envisioned by the Constitution — and perhaps more important, to render a verdict condemning his actions for the sake of history. “We’ve never had to consider even the possibility of impeaching a president twice, or in the final days of his presidency,” said Michael J. Gerhardt, a constitutional scholar at the University of North Carolina who testified in Trump’s first impeachment and favors another trial. “But we’ve never had a president before who’s encouraging sedition as Trump has done in his last few days in office.” Yet even some of the president’s harshest critics worried that a last-minute impeachment and an overtime trial could help him rally supporters by presenting himself as a victim not a villain, allowing him to turn the focus from his own actions to those of his opponents. “It historically will be important,” said Andrew Weissmann, who was a deputy to special counsel Robert Mueller and recently published a book, “Where Law Ends,” expressing frustration that the president was not held fully accountable for his actions during the Russia investigation. “But the danger is he is acquitted and the momentum of condemnation now is lost. Plus, until we change the mentality of his base, we have not gotten at the underlying issue.” At the moment, a strong majority of Americans holds Trump responsible for the attack, with 63% saying he has a good amount or even a great deal of blame, according to a PBS Newshour-Marist poll. But when asked whether steps should be taken to remove him from office as a result, Americans retreated to their partisan corners, with 48% saying yes and 49% saying no. A Reuters-Ipsos survey found that 57% of Americans want Trump to leave office right away. But most of them favored removal by Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet through the disability clause of the 25th Amendment, with just 14% calling for another impeachment. Trump has few defenders among Republican officeholders for exhorting the crowd before it marched on the Capitol and even some in the conservative news media turned on him, most notably The Wall Street Journal editorial page, which called his actions “impeachable” and urged him to resign. Sen. Patrick Toomey of Pennsylvania, told Fox News on Saturday that “the president committed impeachable offenses,” joining at least three other Senate Republicans who have called on Trump to resign, expressed openness to impeachment or voted for conviction last year. But in the face of impeachment threats, some Republicans began taking up the fight against his opponents again. They may not like Trump or believe it is politically viable to be seen as excusing his behavior but many are still energized by battling his enemies on the left. On Sean Hannity’s Fox News program Friday night, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who was accosted by Trump supporters at an airport for opposing the president’s efforts to overturn the election, was suddenly back to castigating Trump’s rivals and talking about Hunter Biden. Graham focused on Trump’s video message Thursday calling for healing and reconciliation, a video the president privately expressed regret for making. “Instead of trying to match what President Trump has done, the radical Democrats are talking about another impeachment that will destroy the country even further,” Graham said. Still, Trump might have a challenge finding lawyers to defend him in any trial. Jay Sekulow, who was a leader of the defense team in the impeachment trial last year, called the idea of a second impeachment a “gigantic mistake” by Democrats during a radio show, but has not participated in Trump’s legal efforts to overturn Biden’s election and did not respond to a message asking if he would represent the president again. Pat A. Cipollone, the White House counsel who teamed up with Sekulow, has been so upset about the Capitol attack that he has considered resigning. One of the few members of his defense team who said he would stick with the president was Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School emeritus professor who had a secondary role last time. In an email Saturday, he said he would defend Trump on free expression grounds. “Trump’s speech, whatever one may think of it on the merits, is clearly protected by the First Amendment,” he said. “To impeach him for a constitutionally protected speech would violate both the First Amendment and the constitutional criteria for impeachment and would do enduring damage to the Constitution.”

For Trump and the nation, a final test of accountability

Hours after hundreds of President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in a harrowing assault on American democracy, a shaken Congress on Thursday formally certified Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory.

US Congress confirms Biden's victory after harrowing Capitol Hill assault

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden said he had believed for a long time that President Donald Trump was not fit for office, but it was up to Congress to decide on a second impeachment of the Republican president after Wednesday's storming of the Capitol.

Biden says Trump is unfit, but impeachment is for Congress to decide

<p>A lot is at stake after Donald Trump conceded defeat and accepted that Joe Biden has won the US election to become the next president. Among other things, there are people in line for pardon from Trump.</p>

<p>Rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black are among the celebrities in line for President <a href="https://www.wionews.com/topics/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>’s pardons.</p>

<p>According to a report from Bloomberg, Trump is considering pardoning Lil Wayne, with whom he posed for a photo during the presidential campaign. Lil Wayne pled guilty in federal district court in December for illegally possessing a loaded, gold-plated handgun, while traveling to Florida on a private plane in 2019. He could serve up to 10 years in jail. He’s previously served eight months in jail in New York after being convicted of criminal possession of a weapon.</p>

<p>Another celebrity on his list is rapper Kodak Black who was sentenced to 46 months in prison on federal weapons charges. Kodak Black had admitted to lying on background-check forms while buying multiple firearms. Two of the weapons were later found by police at crime scenes, including one with Kodak Black’s fingerprints and a live round in the chamber that had been used to fire at a rap artist.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Trump plans on announcing the pardons on what is expected to be his final day in office, January 19.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.wionews.com/entertainment/singer-jay-kay-denies-being-at-the-capitol-hill-as-fans-mistake-him-for-one-of-the-rioters-355264" hreflang="en">Singer Jay Kay denies being at the Capitol Hill as fans mistake him for one of the rioters</a></p>

<p><a href="https://www.wionews.com/entertainment/hollywood/news-unimaginable-and-disgraceful-hollywood-reacts-to-capitol-attack-355175" hreflang="en">'Unimaginable and Disgraceful', Hollywood reacts to Capitol attack</a></p>

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A lot is at stake after Donald Trump conceded defeat and accepted that Joe Biden has won the US election to become the next president. Among other things, there are people in line for pardon from Trump.

A lot is at stake after Donald Trump conceded defeat and accepted that Joe Biden has won the US election to become the next president. Among other things, there are people in line for pardon from Trump. Rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black are among the celebrities in line for President Donald Trump’s pardons. According to a report from Bloomberg, Trump is considering pardoning Lil Wayne, with whom he posed for a photo during the presidential campaign. Lil Wayne pled guilty in federal district court in December for illegally possessing a loaded, gold-plated handgun, while traveling to Florida on a private plane in 2019. He could serve up to 10 years in jail. He’s previously served eight months in jail in New York after being convicted of criminal possession of a weapon. Another celebrity on his list is rapper Kodak Black who was sentenced to 46 months in prison on federal weapons charges. Kodak Black had admitted to lying on background-check forms while buying multiple firearms. Two of the weapons were later found by police at crime scenes, including one with Kodak Black’s fingerprints and a live round in the chamber that had been used to fire at a rap artist. Trump plans on announcing the pardons on what is expected to be his final day in office, January 19. Singer Jay Kay denies being at the Capitol Hill as fans mistake him for one of the rioters 'Unimaginable and Disgraceful', Hollywood reacts to Capitol attack

Rappers Lil Wayne, Kodak Black in line for Donald Trump's pardons for these crimes

U.S. President Donald Trump has finally conceded defeat. As the call for Trump's removal grows, reports say Trump is planning to pardon himself. Can he do that?

Gravitas: Trump concedes defeat, finally.

The head of the EU executive called violence at the U.S. Capitol "outrageous" on Thursday (January 7) but said the fact Joe Biden was still confirmed by Congress proved that American democracy was resilient.

EU Chief: US Capitol violence 'outrageous' but US democracy is strong

The US President Donald Trump faced the threat on Thursday of a second impeachment, a day after his supporters breached the U.S. Capitol in a stunning assault on American democracy as Congress was certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory.

Trump faces calls for removal, possible impeachment after US Capitol chaos

President Donald Trump conceded for the first time on Thursday (January 7) that Joe Biden will be the next U.S. president, a day after his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol as Congress was certifying Biden's victory.

Trump acknowledges Biden victory; condemns 'heinous attack' on Capitol

Supporters of President Donald Trump who stormed the U.S. Capitol, breaking windows and stealing things, could face charges including sedition, insurrection and rioting, Washington, D.C.'s top federal prosecutor said on Thursday.

Trump supporters who stormed US Capitol could face sedition charges

Hundreds of President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday (January 6) in a bid to overturn his election defeat, occupying the symbol of American democracy and forcing Congress to suspend a session to certify President-elect Joe Biden's victory.

US Capitol invaders smash windows, destroy furniture

Hundreds of President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in a bid to overturn his election defeat, occupying the symbol of American democracy and forcing Congress to suspend a session to certify President-elect Joe Biden's victory.

Woman shot dead inside Capitol during riots, succumbs to injuries

Vice President Mike Pence condemned the violent supporters of President Donald Trump who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday (January 6) in an attempt to block certification of the presidential election results, as the U.S. Senate resumed its vote count after an hours-long delay.

US Congress reconvenes session to certify Joe Biden's victory

Trump supporters storm U.S. Capitol in a bid to overturn election defeat

Congress debates certification of Biden's win after Trump supporters storm US Capitol

US Congress certifies Biden win hours after harrowing Capitol Hill assault

Twitter blocks Donald Trump's account, threatens permanent ban over inciting violence

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