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The false claim that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was killed by being struck by rioters with a fire extinguisher was debunked Monday by the District of Columbia medical examiner — but not before Democrats cited it in the impeachment trial.

The York County, Pennsylvania, Republican committee voted Saturday night to censure Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) after he cast a guilty vote against former President Donald Trump at the end of the weeklong impeachment trial.

Senate Democrats blamed House impeachment managers for not informing them they wanted to vote for witnesses until Saturday morning.

MSNBC published an op-ed Tuesday comparing Adolf Hitler’s ability to speak and sway others at his 1924 trial (for an attempted coup) with former President Donald Trump speaking at his impeachment trial, claiming that “there are inherent risks in giving Trump a megaphone to spread his inanities now that he’s out of office and has been deplatformed from Twitter.”

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) was seemingly emotional — appearing to almost cry — while he recalled being with his youngest daughter Tabitha at the Capitol on January 6 as he presented arguments supporting the Democrat-led push to impeach former President Donald Trump on Tuesday.

Nearly three years after she posed for a photo holding a bloody replica of President Donald Trump’s severed head, comedian and left-wing activist Kathy Griffin said Americans are experiencing a “collective trauma” as the second impeachment trial against former President Trump began on Tuesday.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) delivered a strident address on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday afternoon in which he cited examples of Democrats encouraging violence and aggressive behavior against Trump supporters and Republicans.

Rep. Susan Collins (R-ME) is getting death threats after she cast her vote during the impeachment trial to acquit President Donald Trump on both charges against him.

Donald Trump Jr., President Donald Trump’s oldest son, tweeted Wednesday that Sen. Mitt Romney “should be expelled” from the Republican Party over his vote to convict Trump for abuse of power.

Fact Check – CLAIM: Romney said the White House argued a statutory violation was needed for impeachment. VERDICT: FALSE.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) leaked advance news of his vote to convict President Donald Trump on one of two articles of impeachment to McKay Coppins, the same reporter who mocked Romney during his run for president in 2012.

Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) closed his side’s argument for the removal of President Donald Trump with a rambling rhetorical assault on the president.

Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) defended his staff during closing arguments in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on Monday.

CLAIM: “Professor Dershowitz, and the other counselors to the president, have argued that if the president thinks that something is in his interest, then it is, by definition, in the interest of the American people.”

VERDICT: False.

“Elizabeth Warren helped defeat the impeachment of the President of the United States,” Cruz declared Friday evening on his podcast.

American Conservative Union (ACU) chairman Matt Schlapp formally “disinvited” Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) from this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) because of Romney’s vote to call on additional witnesses in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.

White House lawyer Jay Sekulow told the Senate on Friday that if it decided to subpoena new witnesses, the president’s legal team would demand the right to call every one of the witnesses that appeared in the House.

Fact check – CLAIM: Michael Duffey, a political appointee, “seized responsibility for withholding the [Ukraine] aid.” VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE.

If Chief Justice Roberts votes for witnesses, he would have to recuse himself, leaving the Supreme Court deadlocked, and the final decision with Judge Merrick Garland.

After two marathon question-and-answer sessions, it became clear that the Democrats’ case against President Trump is essentially based on five misquotes.

The second day of the question-and-answer session in President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial was held Thursday. Here is a recap.

House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff tried to stop House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler from having the last word in the question and answer portion of the Senate impeachment trial on Thursday.

Fact check – CLAIM: Trump told Sondland that “Zelensky has to announce these investigations.” FALSE. Adam Schiff relied on third-hand testimony contradicted by Sondland himself.

House impeachment manager Hakeem Jeffries told the Senate the “Steele dossier” was not improper foreign interference in the 2016 election because Democrats “purchased” it.

John Roberts does not have authority to block questions submitted by senators in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, said Hans von Spakovsky.

Fact check – CLAIM: The White House believes that it’s OK to take information from a foreign country in an election. VERDICT: FALSE.

Fact check – CLAIM: Alan Dershowitz and the White House lawyers believe that any action a president claims is in the public interest is unimpeachable. VERDICT: FALSE. Dershowitz specifically said crime-like actions are impeachable.

Chief Justice John Roberts refused Thursday afternoon to read a written question submitted by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) during the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.

Deputy White House Counsel Patrick Philbin pointed out Wednesday in the question-and-answer session in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate that the Washington Post had written a lengthy article about former Vice President Joe Biden’s conflict of interest in Ukraine on July 22, 2019 — three days before Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, when he raised the issue.

Adam Schiff told the Senate it could not have witnesses and documents relating to the whistleblower or the Intelligence Community Inspector General.

Senators participated Wednesday in the first of two days of questions and answers in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.

Adam Schiff (D-CA) told the Senate that the White House lawyers were afraid that Chief Justice John Roberts would be fair.

House impeachment manager Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) repeatedly told the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on Wednesday night that the House case was “proven beyond any doubt at all.”

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) told the Senate during President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on Wednesday that he “waived” his executive privilege “the moment President Trump said that John Bolton was not telling the truth.”

Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) demanded that the Senate subpoena additional witnesses and documents Wednesday — after declaring that he would not reveal the “whistleblower.”

Revelations in the new book “Profiles in Corruption” show that Democrats lack credibility in accusing President Donald Trump of “abuse of power,” the book’s author Peter Schweizer said in an interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour.