English By Associated Press Share on Facebook Print this page WASHINGTON - Donald Trump endangered the lives of all members of Congress when he aimed a mob of supporters like a loaded cannon at the U.S. Capitol, House Democrats said Tuesday in making their most detailed case yet for why the former president should be convicted and permanently barred from office.
The legal brief forcefully links Trump s baseless efforts to overturn the results of the presidential election to the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, saying he bears unmistakable blame for actions that directly threatened the underpinnings of American democracy. It argues that he must be found guilty when his impeachment trial opens before the Senate next week on a charge of inciting the siege.
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President Biden and Vice President Harris meet Monday evening in the Oval Office with 10 Republican senators, including Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, to discuss COVID-19 relief proposals. Doug Mills/Pool/Getty Images
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The U.S. Senate voted 50-49 along party lines on Tuesday to advance a budget resolution, setting up a lengthy push to approve $1.9 trillion in coronavirus relief requested by President Biden.
Republicans have already told Biden they won t go that big, but in an effort to seek bipartisanship, Biden had a group of 10 Republicans to the White House Monday. Ten is an important number, because it s exactly the number of Republicans that Democrats would need to end a filibuster and pass the legislation.
In briefs, Dems say Trump aimed loaded cannon of supporters at Capitol; he denies charges Share Updated: 1:21 PM EST Feb 2, 2021 By ERIC TUCKER and MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press
In briefs, Dems say Trump aimed loaded cannon of supporters at Capitol; he denies charges Share Updated: 1:21 PM EST Feb 2, 2021
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Show Transcript Donald Trump may be gone from Washington. But Republicans still trying to pick up the pieces from his tumultuous tenure in office at the center of one storm. The third ranking House Republican Liz Cheney, who joined nine of her GOP colleagues this month in voting to impeach Trump, sparking an effort by Trump s staunchest defenders toe ouster from her leadership job and to feed her in next year s Wyoming primary. I Love Y. Sources tell CNN that Trump is obsessed with taking down Cheney, even his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. Calling into a rally yesterday seeking Cheney s defeat. And since the peop
Lawyers: Trump didn’t incite riot, trial unconstitutional; Dems say he aimed a mob of supporters at capitol ‘like a loaded cannon’
By Eric Tucker and Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) Donald Trump’s lawyers denied Tuesday that he played a role in inciting the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol and said that the Senate impeachment trial is unconstitutional.
The lawyers filed their brief ahead of next week’s trial on accusations that he provoked the siege of the Jan. 6 siege of the Capitol through his baseless efforts to overturn the results of the presidential election.
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