To the Editor: President Donald Trump has endured nearly five years of the most consistently negative and vindictive treatment by the leadership of the Democratic party of any U.S. president in history. It actually began even before Trump was inaugurated in November, 1916 with members of the Obama administration justice department and the then director […]
US election: The text that started Donald Trump s downfall revealed
14 Jan, 2021 04:29 PM
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US President Donald Trump releases video after impeachment. Video / The White House
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In the midst of last Wednesday s violent attack on the US Capitol, a text message with the power to make history was fired off to every Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.
At 3.09pm a little over an hour after violent Pro-Trump protesters made their way up the exterior steps of the Capitol and pushed through the barricades – Representative Ted Lieu wrote that the committee should start drafting articles of impeachment now, regardless of what leadership says .
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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi administers the oath of office to members of the 117th Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, January 3, 2021. (Bill Clark/Pool Photo via AP, File)
AP Before they take office, elected US officials swear to uphold the country’s Constitution. But what happens when they are accused of doing the opposite?
As some Republicans in Congress continued to back US President Donald Trump’s doomed effort to overturn the election, critics including President-elect Joe Biden alleged that they had violated their oaths and instead pledged allegiance to Trump.
The oaths, which rarely attract much attention, have become a common subject in the final days of the Trump presidency, being invoked by members of both parties as they met Wednesday to affirm Biden’s win and a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol.