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US President Donald Trump has taken to Twitter as the possibility of John Bolton’s testimony grows stronger. The president released a tweetstorm on Wednesday, calling for an impeachment trial to end immediately in the US Senate, where his allies hold the majority. Mark Penn, Harris Poll: “It’s time to end …

Lead House impeachment manager Adam Schiff called dramatically for the Senate to remove President Donald Trump from office Thursday, saying the US leader cannot be trusted to put the country’s interests ahead of his own. “The American people deserve a president they can count on, to put their interest first,” …

House impeachment managers begin making their case for removing President Donald Trump from office on Wednesday following a marathon opening session in the Senate’s impeachment trial to approve the rules of the trial. On Tuesday and into the early morning hours Wednesday, Republicans repeatedly rejected motions to subpoena witnesses and …

President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial begins in earnest Tuesday with a heated debate over the rules, which Democrats charge are an attempt by Senate Republicans to zoom through the process while covering up evidence and ignoring witnesses. Democrats are furious at the four-page organizing resolution from Senate Majority Leader Mitch …

Nadler says White House counsel should be recused House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, who is also an impeachment manager, said White House Counsel Pat Cippolone should be recused from the Senate trial because he is a fact witness. Some background: Earlier today, the House managers sent a letter accusing Cipollone …

The White House-released legal brief about President Trump’s impeachment trial was so irreverent of facts that a legal expert suspected that the President himself has dictated parts of it. The brief, released on Saturday, accused Democrats of violating the Constitution and attempting to reverse the results of the 2016 election. …

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has said that Republican President Donald Trump is “impeached forever” regardless of the outcome of the Senate impeachment trial. In an interview on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Saturday, addressing Trump, Pelosi said, “You are impeached forever. No matter what the Senate …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced Wednesday who will serve as the House Democrats’ impeachment managers in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Pelosi named House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler, along with Reps. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Val Demings …

House Judiciary Committee lawyers on Monday told a federal appeals court that the panel might consider recommending “new articles of impeachment” against President Trump if former White House counsel Don McGahn testifies and provides fresh evidence, The Washington Post reports. Democrats who lead the committee have been fighting in court …

US President Donald Trump’s looming impeachment trial in the Senate has reached an impasse as Republican and Democratic leaders in the upper chamber of Congress clash over impeachment rules. The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives approved two articles of impeachment against the Republican president on Wednesday on charges of abuse of …