Impeachment cloud darkens Trump's Florida Thanksgiving break
WASHINGTON, United States — President Donald Trump branded his political enemies "wolves" on Tuesday ahead of a campaign rally and Thanksgiving break at his Florida home already being spoiled by the threat of impeachment.
With the Judiciary Committee in the House of Representatives announcing the next phase of impeachment will open December 4, there is little chance of Trump escaping political storm clouds as he spends the rest of the week in the Sunshine State.
The Democratic chairman of the committee, Jerry Nadler, announced the new phase
"The committee looks forward to your participation," Nadler said.
But Trump began his day by lashing out on Twitter at "the D.C. Wolves and Fake News Media."
In keeping with his favored response to moments of crisis, Trump will hold a rally later Tuesday in Sunrise, Florida, reconnecting to his right-wing voter base.
The state is a key piece in the electoral puzzle for the 2020 presidential election and recently became Trump's legal home, after he announced he was switching residence from his native New York.
He will then retreat to his Mar-a-Lago golf resort on Florida's Atlantic coast.
However, the relaxed setting is unlikely to soothe a president increasingly frustrated and angered by what he calls a Democratic "witch hunt."
Impeachment even made its way into the quirky annual ritual of a presidential pardon for two enormous turkeys at the White House.
"They've already received subpoenas to appear in Adam Schiff's basement on Thursday," Trump joked to guests in the Rose Garden, referring to the head of the intelligence committee leading the impeachment probe in the House of Representatives.
Trump also
Conspiracy theories
Forecasts are for balmy temperatures all week at Trump's golf course and official private residence in Mar-a-Lago.
Back in chilly Washington, Democrats plan to keep working through the Thanksgiving break on what looks like a fast track to making Trump only the third president ever to
Once the Judiciary Committee produces articles of impeachment, the full House, dominated by Democrats, can vote to impeach.
Although the Republican-led Senate will
There was more pressure on the administration late Monday when a Washington appeals court ruled that White House aides cannot continue to dodge subpoenas for testifying before the Democratic-led impeachment panel.
The administration will launch a further appeal, tying up the case, but the ruling, which applies specifically to Trump's former White House lawyer Don McGahn, raises the temperature.
Trump sought to downplay the development, insisting on Twitter
"I would
He said that
Portraying himself as a victim, Trump has frequently said he is the "most unfairly treated" leader in history.
He claims the investigations into his murky relationship with Ukraine and Russia are a "hoax" and a "witch hunt," and almost daily he gives credence to right-wing conspiracy theories that his own US intelligence services have debunked.
Donald Trump, now former US president, has been impeached a second time.
Donald Trump's former chief of staff says he is no longer willing to cooperate with the probe into January's assault on the US Capitol, prompting investigators to threaten him with criminal prosecution.
Mark Meadows, who failed to appear before the congressional panel last month, is seen as a key witness to Trump's role in efforts to overturn the election by undemocratic means.
Having initially snubbed a subpoena to testify before the House of Representatives committee, Meadows later reached an agreement on sharing information with lawmakers — before reversing course again.
"Now actions by the select committee have made such an appearance untenable," Meadows' attorney, George Terwilliger, says in a new letter to the committee circulated among US media. — AFP
The US Senate is expected to deliver a verdict in Donald Trump's impeachment trial this weekend after his lawyers argued that the former president bears no responsibility for an attack by supporters on Congress after he failed to win reelection.
Defense lawyers wrapped up their presentation in just three hours, accusing Democrats of persecuting Trump.
This followed two days of evidence from Democratic impeachment managers, centered around harrowing video footage of the mob assault against the Capitol on January 6. — AFP
The US Senate votes to proceed with the impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump, rejecting defense arguments that it was unconstitutional.
Defense lawyers had argued that Trump should not face a trial in the Senate for inciting insurrection because he was no longer president.
But the Senate voted 56-44 to proceed with the trial, with six Republicans joining Democratic lawmakers. — AFP
The Senate impeachment trial of former US president Donald Trump will "tear this country apart," one of his defense lawyers says Tuesday.
"This trial will tear this country apart," David Schoen says on the opening day of Trump's trial for inciting the January 6 storming of the US Capitol by his supporters.
Schoen says the trial will leave the United States "far more divided and our standing around the world will be badly broken." — AFP
Former US president Donald Trump announced Sunday that he had hired two new lawyers to head his defense team for his historic second impeachment trial.
Trump's announcement came the day after US media reported that several of his impeachment lawyers had left his team, a little more than a week shy of his trial before the US Senate.
Trump said in a statement that "highly respected trial lawyers" David Schoen and Bruce L. Castor, Jr would lead his legal efforts.
Castor has focused on criminal law throughout his career, while Schoen specializes in "civil rights litigation in Alabama and federal criminal defense work, including white collar and other complex cases, in New York."
Trump, who left office January 20, faces trial on a charge that he incited the mob that stormed the US Capitol building in an effort to block his election loss to President Joe Biden. — AFP
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