Broadcasters stick with Trump during acquittal victory talk

NEW YORK (AP) - After President Donald Trump spoke live for more than an hour Thursday about his impeachment acquittal, one television network anchor apologized to viewers for a presidential obscenity, while another said it was like watching someone on a therapist's couch.

Yet there's no indication that anyone in ...

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McConnell remaking Senate in age of Trump, impeachment

McConnell remaking Senate in age of Trump, impeachmentLong before Donald Trump’s impeachment landed in the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had one piece of advice for the president: Focus on the House. It was the GOP leader's central strategy to produce as partisan an impeachment as possible -- too polarizing for any centrists to touch -- to secure Republican acquittal in the Senate. “He understood right from the start, this was crooked politics,” said Trump, singling McConnell out for praise Thursday at the White House.


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