WASHINGTON — A fiercely divided House tossed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off both her committees Thursday, an unprecedented punishment that Democrats said she’d earned by spreading hateful and violent conspiracy theories. Underscoring the political vise her inflammatory commentary has clamped her party into, nearly all Republicans voted against the Democratic...
Republican Senators Want to Halt Trump Impeachment Trial
WASHINGTON — Senators took oaths Tuesday to ensure “impartial justice” as jurors in Donald Trump's historic impeachment trial, proceedings that will test Republican loyalty to the former president and the power he still wields after the deadly siege at the U.S. Capitol. But some Republican senators are challenging the legitimacy of...
House Sending Trump Impeachment to Senate, GOP Opposes Trial
WASHINGTON — As the House prepares to bring the impeachment charge against Donald Trump to the Senate for trial, a growing number of Republican senators say they are opposed to the proceeding, dimming the chances that former president will be convicted on the charge that he incited a siege of the U.S. Capitol....
Have You Heard the One About Biden’s Face on Trump’s Body?
At least one diehard Donald Trump supporter says that the nation's 45th president remains in the White House. How can that be when Joe Biden was sworn in as president on Wednesday after winning the November election? The claim made by an anonymous 4chan poster: Biden was arrested, then a...
Trump Impeachment to Go to Senate on Monday, Launching Trial
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to send the article of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate on Monday, launching the start of the former president's trial on a charge of incitement of insurrection over the deadly Capitol riot. “There will be a trial,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck...
Fact Check: Trump’s Fiction in His Goodbye to Washington
WASHINGTON — In his final remarks as president, Donald Trump tried to take credit for accomplishments of his predecessor and even those to come under President Joe Biden. Falsehoods suffused his farewell remarks Wednesday morning and the night before, though he was spot on with this: “We were not a regular administration.”...
Walters: Democrats Overreach on Recall, Miss Valid Point
Last week, the California Democratic Party attempted to link the Republican-backed drive to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom to the riotous invasion of the U.S. Capitol building by supporters of soon-to-be ex-President Donald Trump. “This recall effort, which really ought to be called ‘the California coup,’ is being led by right-wing...
Even GOP Loyalists Agree: Donald Trump Is Done
"This is a [expletive] disaster. #MAGA is dead." I got that message Wednesday evening from a diehard activist who worked on the 2020 Trump campaign, as the true horror of what happened at the U.S. Capitol hit home. It was a burst of honest anger and betrayal, but as it...
Trump Says He’ll ‘Fight Like Hell’ to Hold on to Presidency
DALTON, Ga. — With mounting desperation, Donald Trump declared he would “fight like hell” to hold on to the presidency and appealed to Republican lawmakers to reverse his election loss to Joe Biden when they convene this week to confirm the Electoral College vote. Electoral voters won by President-elect Biden are "not...
AP Fact Check: Trump Conclusively Lost, Denies the Evidence
WASHINGTON — In the face of conclusive evidence that he lost, President Donald Trump is claiming “I won.” His tweet Monday sought to perpetuate the mathematically impossible and thoroughly debunked myth that he pulled out a victory from the election that definitively chose Democrat Joe Biden as the next president. Trump's refusal...