Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) used an opinion article by the editorial board of the Washington Post in an attempt to prove the facts of his case against President Donald Trump in opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial Wednesday evening.
Republican and Democrat lawmakers from the House and Senate disagree profoundly on whether or not to allow new witnesses to testify in the ongoing impeachment trial in the upper chamber to remove or acquit President Donald Trump.
Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) used part of his opening argument at President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial Wednesday to trash Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz — for the second day in a row.
Fact check – CLAIM: Ukrainian soldiers died fighting Russian invasion because President Donald Trump held up “security assistance” temporarily. VERDICT: FALSE.
Adam Schiff continues to ignore evidence presented by witnesses that he himself called to testify at the House Intelligence Committee.
Fact check – CLAIM: President Donald Trump withheld a White House meeting, and military aid, from Ukraine until it agreed to announce investigations. VERDICT: False. There is no direct evidence of that in the entire House record.
Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) led his opening argument in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on Wednesday by citing allegations of “Russia collusion” that have been debunked.
Von Spakovsky: “Virtually the only difference between the Clinton resolution and the McConnell resolution was one change that was actually necessitated by the Democrats.”
Chief Justice John Roberts rebuked House impeachment managers and White House counsel early Wednesday morning after House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler accused the president’s lawyers of lying.
Cipollone to Nadler: “Mr. Nadler, you owe an apology to the President of the United States and his family. You owe an apology to the Senate. But most of all, you owe an apology to the American people.”
Adam Schiff told the Senate that Trump asked Zelensky, “I have a favor to ask.” Trump actually said: “I would like you to do us a favor.”
House impeachment manager Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) used controversial phone records that were likely obtained unlawfully by the House Intelligence Committee to argue the Senate should subpoena State Department documents.
Fact check – CLAIM: Trump never raised the issue of corruption in Ukraine in 2017 or 2018. VERDICT: False. We know he did, from Schiff’s own inquiry.
Fact check – CLAIM: President Donald Trump believes that he has absolute power under Article II of the U.S. Constitution and must therefore be impeached. VERDICT: False. Trump was talking specifically about the power to fire Robert Mueller.
White House Counsel Pat Cipollone to the Senate: “They’re not here to steal one election; they’re here to steal two elections.”
House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) tried to dismiss Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz as not a “reputable constitutional law expert.”
Jay Sekulow, one of the lawyers leading President Donald Trump’s defense in the Senate impeachment trial, attacked the arguments Tuesday by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) against executive privilege — by quoting his own words at him.
Senate Democrats and the House impeachment managers complained Tuesday about the procedures proposed by the Senate Republican majority for the trial of President Donald Trump — after running an absurdly unfair House process.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) warned his colleagues Tuesday in a speech on the Senate floor that calling witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump would prolong the process.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and the other House impeachment managers sent a letter Tuesday to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone seeking to disqualify him from representing President Donald Trump at the Senate trial.
The White House released its “trial memorandum” in response to impeachment on Monday, and it is a tour de force.
The White House filed its official brief in response to the House of Representatives’ articles of impeachment on Monday, arguing that it had been entirely “appropriate” for President Donald Trump to raise questions in a phone conversation last July with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about former Vice President Joe Biden’s conflict of interest regarding his son, Hunter Biden, who was on the board of a the Ukrainian energy company, Burisma.
Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer told Breitbart News on Sunday evening that he thinks Republican senators’ decision to include a “kill switch” in the impeachment trial rules is “brilliant.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is as of now including in the U.S. Senate impeachment trial rules a “kill switch” that effectively allows for the president’s legal team to seek an immediate verdict or dismissal of the case should Democrats engage in any shenanigans like they did in the House process.
The mainstream media are using claims by Lev Parnas, facing criminal indictment on federal campaign finance charges, to further a years-long Democrat effort to attack House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA).
The impeachment trial at the Republican-controlled Senate will likely carry on past the State of the Union, the Iowa caucuses, and maybe even the New Hampshire primaries, several news outlets recently projected, contradicting White House predictions of a quick process.
Conservatives will not forgive Senate Republicans if they buckle and bow to an illegitimate House impeachment or Democrats’ outrageous demands.
Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats tried this week to re-enact the assassination of Julius Caesar — but this version will end in hilarity.
Lev Parnas suggested that the reason for an announcement by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was that no one “trusted” Ukraine to conduct an investigation
There are serious questions about Lev Parnas’s credibility, and many of his claims about Trump are dubious or contradicted by other evidence.
The Republican-controlled Senate gave out commemorative pens during President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial in 1999.
A poll shows Joe Manchin could face strong political blowback if he votes to convict President Donald Trump on one or two articles of impeachment passed by the Democratic-controlled House.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said Monday that the impeachment of President Donald Trump was partly to blame for his decision to drop out of the 2020 presidential race.
Democrat senators who are running for U.S. president reportedly lamented this week that the looming impeachment trial will likely have a negative impact on their chances by requiring them to remain in the nation’s capital rather than on the campaign trail.
Joe Biden’s testimony would establish a legitimate basis for Trump’s Ukraine inquiry. He could invoke the Fifth but not quash a subpoena.
Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats claimed Trump needed to be removed urgently. Now she is holding up the process — without any constitutional authority.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) claimed Tuesday afternoon to be an “impartial juror” after a reporter asked him whether he and fellow Democrats could live up to the standard they had set for Republicans.
