Category: fnc/politics

Trump impeachment trial overshadows hot topics, controversies in early weeks of Biden admin

Posted on by Tyler Olson
As the Senate considers for the second time in barely over a year whether to convict former President Donald Trump of an impeachment charge, he continues to dominate the political world even as he's remained mum through the process. 

Biden ‘anxious to see’ if Republicans will vote to convict Trump in impeachment trial

Posted on by Paul Steinhauser
President Biden says he’s “anxious” to see how Senate Republicans will vote in the impeachment trial of former President Trump and whether they will “stand up” and support convicting the former president.

Trump lawyers expected to allege Dem hypocrisy Friday as defense gets its turn at impeachment trial

Posted on by Tyler Olson
The legal team for former President Donald Trump makes their opening arguments in his second impeachment trial on Friday -- and they are expected to allege that Democrats are being hypocritical by saying that Trump incited the Capitol mob by telling his followers they have to "fight" against a "stolen election."

Sen. Rand Paul: House managers ‘never made their case’ that Trump incited Capitol violence

Posted on by Samuel Chamberlain
The House Democratic impeachment managers failed to prove that former President Donald Trump incited the deadly riot at the Capitol Jan. 6, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told "Your World" Thursday.

Lead impeachment manager Raskin reveals questions he would have asked Trump if he testified

Posted on by Ronn Blitzer
Former President Donald Trump will not testify in his own defense during his Senate impeachment trial, but lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., revealed what he would have asked Trump if he had chosen to appear.

Dem impeachment managers target Trump lawyers’ First Amendment argument, calling it a ‘distraction’

Posted on by Morgan Phillips
Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said that former President Trump’s lawyers’ argument that Trump was within his First Amendment rights when he peddled election fraud claims is a “completely irrelevant distraction.” 

Democratic impeachment prosecutors use rioters’ words against Trump at trial: ‘We were invited here’

Posted on by Marisa Schultz
House impeachment managers Thursday sought to directly connect former President Trump to the Jan. 6 violence at the Capitol by playing statements of the rioters who said they were acting on Trump's request.

Democratic impeachment managers allege Trump would incite future violence if allowed to run again

Posted on by Ronn Blitzer
Democratic House impeachment managers warned that convicting former President Donald Trump and disqualifying him from running again was not just a necessary consequence for the role they say he played in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, but as a means of preventing such an event from occurring again.