December 31, 2020
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President Donald Trump has had a tumultuous final year of his term, finding some of the greatest achievements and most devastating losses of his presidency. Here’s a look back on the biggest Trump moments of 2020.
Win: Impeachment
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announces articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
The Democratic Party’s dogged attempt to impeach and remove Trump from office set the tone for 2020. Just as Trump had shed accusations of Russia collusion, new allegations regarding his relations with Ukraine reared their head.
While Democrats successfully impeaching Trump in the House may appear to be a loss, his acquittal in the Republican-held Senate was a foregone conclusion. Polling at the time also showed that Trump saw the highest approval rating of his presidency 49 percent in the midst of the impeachment trial in the Senate.
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ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Earlier this month, before Congress went on Christmas break, the capital was abuzz about California Rep. Eric Swalwell’s relationship with a representative of a foreign power whose interests don’t exactly coincide these days with the United States.
The normally chatty, media-friendly congressman who was one of President Donald J. Trump’s principal accusers hasn’t had much to say about his relationship with Fang Fang (also known as Christine) who the FBI says was a spy for the Chinese government who cultivated relationships several of which were intimate with rising Democratic politicians across the United States.
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., argues Durham’s investigation into origins of Russia probe should continue, calls for special prosecutor to investigate Biden family’s business ties to China.
President-elect Joe Biden s pick for a high-level Pentagon position hyped the since-discredited Steele dossier and Trump-Russian collusion narrative.
The Biden transition team on Wednesday nominated Colin Kahl, who served as President Obama s and then-Vice President Biden s former national security adviser, as his undersecretary of defense for policy.
Biden said in a Wednesday statement that Kahl and Kathleen Hicks, his nominee for deputy secretary of defense, have the broad experience and crisis-tested judgment necessary to help tackle the litany of challenges we face today, and all those we may confront tomorrow.