Bill Taylor says attacks on Yovanovitch were ‘unconscionable’

Bill Taylor -- the former top US diplomat in Ukraine who served as a key witness in the House impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump -- denounced attacks on former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch as "unconscionable" and said that he thought Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was under pressure not to back her.
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Analysis: The hidden worst part of Trump’s unhinged impeachment victory speech

Less than 24 hours after formally being acquitted by the Senate, President Donald Trump riffed for over an hour from inside the White House -- a vengeful, angry, fact-challenged spew of score-settling that even for this most unorthodox of presidents was eye-opening in its tone and jaw-dropping in its boundary busting.
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Washington waits for Bolton to break his silence following Trump’s acquittal

Former national security adviser John Bolton has remained silent in the immediate aftermath of President Donald Trump's Senate impeachment acquittal, an outcome many Democrats have cast as the result of a "sham" trial due, in part, to the fact that they were denied a chance to hear the former top aide testify.
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Once the definition of the Republican establishment, the senator is now the one thing it was hard to imagine he’d ever be

Republican Sen. Mitt Romney did something on Wednesday that he hadn't done in a quarter century in politics. By voting guilty on the first article of impeachment against President Donald Trump, Romney took a position that was wholly out of step with his party or his raw political self-interest.
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