Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell has called US President Joe Biden’s voting rights speech as “nonsense.” “What utter nonsense. It would be laugh-out-loud funny if it wasn’t so completely and totally irresponsible,” the Kentucky Republican said on Wednesday. “This is our new president who promised to lower the temperature, bring …
Read More »U.S. senator steps aside as committee chair amid stock trade probe
U.S. Senator Richard Burr is stepping aside as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee during an investigation of stock trades he made before the sharp market downturn triggered by the coronavirus pandemic. The Senate’s Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Burr contacted him on Thursday morning to inform of his …
Read More »Pelosi sees ‘enough testimony’ against Trump to convict
Top US Democrat Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that she believes the impeachment hearings against Donald Trump produced “enough testimony to remove him from office” when the case moves to the Senate. Speaker Pelosi will meet with the House Democratic caucus early Tuesday to prepare for the formal vote required to …
Read More »Joe Biden refuses to comply with Senate subpoena
Former US Vice-President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden have said he would not testify in the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Biden said on Friday that he would not comply with a Senate subpoena to testify because it would take the focus off Trump. Trump’s tactic is to “take …
Read More »US Senate leaders clash over Trump’s impeachment trial
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 …
Read More »‘Russian asset’: Meme war between Trump and the Washington Post.
With the Washington Post stuck in a mud-slinging meme war with Senate Republicans and President Donald Trump, the capital’s paper of record has found itself on the receiving end of internet trolls’ meme-cannons. Confused? The sordid saga began Friday when the Post published an op-ed titled “Mitch McConnell is a …
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