The House voted to impeach President Trump on Wednesday. Now what? Here s what s happening in the final days of Trump s presidency and what could happen with the impeachment trial.
House hands Trump a second impeachment, this time with GOP support
Mike DeBonis and Paul Kane, The Washington Post
Jan. 13, 2021
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1of3A week after the insurrection of the U.S. Capitol, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi greets the National Guard troops occupying and surrounding the newly fenced-in Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.Washington Post photo by Melina MaraShow MoreShow Less
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WASHINGTON - The House made history Wednesday by impeaching a president for a second time, indicting President Donald Trump a week before he leaves office for inciting a riot with false claims of a stolen election that led to the storming of the Capitol and five deaths.
‘Reckoning’ ahead? Why investors continue to ignore ’emerging market’–style U.S. politics MarketWatch 1/14/2021
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That financial markets aren’t reacting to the political chaos in Washington right now doesn’t mean investors can rest easy.
U.S. assets are “not being traded like an emerging market … even though the politics are becoming more and more like an emerging market,” said Mark Rosenberg, chief executive of political-risk-analysis firm GeoQuant, in an interview after last week’s assault on the Capitol by a violent mob who supported President Trump’s bid to overturn the November election.
The breakdown of U.S. political norms and the damage to institutions has a long history, but, if things don’t change, America’s preeminent position in global financial markets could one day be at risk, Rosenberg and other analysts warned.
Impeaching Trump won’t save McConnell, Pelosi from populist rage (opinion)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – President Donald Trump will be out of office in a week.
But Democrats and some Republicans, horrified by the deadly storming of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters last week, want Trump out
now, now, now.
They couldn’t get Vice President Mike Pence to do their work for them by invoking the 25th Amendment. So Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has launched a new impeachment effort.
U.S. Capitol Police push back demonstrators who were trying to enter the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP