"When you hear of armed, don't you think of firearms?" GOP Senator Ron Johnson said. "How many firearms were confiscated? I'm only aware of one. If that was a planned armed insurrection, you really have a bunch of idiots."
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Then-US President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 29 and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in Dallas, Pennsylvania on October 24. AFP
What comes next for US’ Trump, Republican Party, President Biden?
Mon, 15 February 2021
The US Senate acquitted Donald Trump on February 13 of the charge of inciting the January 6 assault on the US Capitol in an unprecedented second impeachment trial.
Trump’s acquittal raises questions about what’s next for the 74-year-old former president, the Republican Party and President Joe Biden.
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Although Trump’s acquittal by the Senate was a near certainty, the verdict must have come as a relief to the former president.
Remember when Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick went on Fox News last March and suggested older Americans should sacrifice themselves for the economy during the pandemic? Let s get back to living, he said. Let s be smart about it. And those of us who are seventy-plus, we ll take care of ourselves, but don t sacrifice the country.
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the number of intergenerational family households in the U.S. |
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His comments sparked an immediate backlash. But remarks like those have also given momentum to a perspective embraced by a disturbing number of scholars and members of the media commentariat: Segregate those over 60 or 65, since they re at greatest risk of dying from the coronavirus, and let the younger generations go about their business.
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Closing arguments underway in Donald Trumpâs impeachment trial
By AFP
Chris Lefkow and Michael Mathes
Washington - The US Senate began hearing final arguments on Saturday in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump as the top Republican senator said he would vote to acquit the former president of inciting the deadly January 6 assault on the Capitol.
Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell s decision means Trump is all but certain to be acquitted by the Senate of the charge of inciting an insurrection by his supporters.
Before moving to final arguments, the proceedings were interrupted for a few hours after House prosecutors, in a surprise move, said they wanted to call witnesses at the trial.