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Liz Cheney Contradicts Kevin McCarthy On Trump’s Future In The Party
The growing divide in the Republican Party over whether or not former President Donald Trump has a future in the party came to a head Wednesday when House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) was directly contradicted by GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming). When asked if Trump should speak at the upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), McCarthy said, “Yes he should.” McCarthy has been in regular conversation with Trump and even visited his Palm Beach club Mar-a-Lago soon after Trump’s term ended. Cheney then responded in direct contradiction saying, “That’s u...
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Enhanced US Capitol security amid threats to Biden speech: police
Washington (AFP) - Enhanced security measures should remain in place at the US Capitol amid threats by militia members to stage an attack during President Joe Biden's expected State of the Union address, the acting Capitol police chief said Thursday. "We know that the insurrectionists that attacked the Capitol weren't only interesting in attacking members of Congress and officers," Yogananda Pittman said at a congressional hearing into the January 6 attack on the Capitol by supporters of then-president Donald Trump. "They wanted to send a symbolic message to the nation as to who was in charge ...
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'Argentine Firecracker' Fanne Foxe dead at 84: WPost
Washington (AFP) - Fanne Foxe, an exotic dancer known as the "Argentine Firecracker" who was at the center of one of the US capital's most notorious sex scandals, has died, The Washington Post reported. She was 84. Foxe leapt into the headlines of newspapers across the country in 1974 after diving into the Tidal Basin in Washington after a boozy night at a nightclub with a married congressman. Foxe was the stage name adopted by Annabel Edith Villagra, who was born in Nueve de Julio, Argentina. The Post said she died on February 10 in Clearwater, Florida. Foxe's brief moment in the national spo...
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US congresswoman's 'gun shrine' Zoom background draws fire
Washington (AFP) - A Republican member of the US Congress raised eyebrows on Thursday when she appeared at a Zoom committee meeting with an arsenal of guns strategically displayed in her background. Representative Lauren Boebert was among the lawmakers attending an organizing meeting of the House Natural Resources Committee being held by video because of the Covid-19 pandemic. When Boebert appeared on camera from her home, she was seated in front of a bookshelf which featured at least three rifles and a handgun. "I always thought my dirty dishes piled up and accumulating bacteria were the most...
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Trump Slams McConnell In Post-Acquittal Statement, Calling Him An ‘Unsmiling Political Hack’
Former President Donald Trump released an angry statement Tuesday night directed at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) for not supporting his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and acknowledging the former president’s blame in the Capitol insurrection. In a message released by his Save America political action committee, Trump said, “Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again.” McConnell was complicit with Trump’s behavior throughout his tenure as president, but seemingly...
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QAnon-backing Republican renounces conspiracies ahead of reprimand vote
Washington (AFP) - A US lawmaker who backed QAnon before entering Congress renounced the conspiracy movement Thursday and expressed regret for spreading misinformation, hours before the House was to reprimand her over extremist statements. "These were words of the past, and these things... do not represent my values," Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene told the House of Representatives in a speech. "I was allowed to believe things that weren't true and I would ask questions about them and talk about them," she added. "And that is absolutely what I regret." Greene added that she "w...
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Congress Members Encouraged To Wear Bulletproof Vests When On Capitol Complex
After last Jan. 6’s riots in the Capitol building, authorities have warned that the upcoming impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump may spark more violence. Capitol Police officials are encouraging members of Congress to buy bulletproof vests in anticipation of violence in the future. The House went as far as to issue a memo telling members that they could expense the purchase of bulletproof vests. Metal detectors have been placed outside every entrance to the House and Senate floors. Every member of Congress, staff and the press are required to walk through the detector before en...
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Pelosi insistent on Trump impeachment trial but mum on timing
Washington (AFP) - US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to set a date Thursday for sending the impeachment article against Donald Trump to the Senate but insisted a trial "must" proceed despite Republican opposition, as President Joe Biden appealed for unity. "It will be soon. I don't think it will be long, but we must do it," the top Democrat in Congress told reporters. She added that the Senate will need to determine the structure of a trial of Trump, who would be the first ex-president ever to face such a process in Congress. "I'll be talking with the (impeachment) managers as to when the ...
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Now that Trump is impeached (again), what's next?
Washington (AFP) - The US House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on Wednesday for a second time -- just days before he is scheduled to leave office -- raising questions about what happens next. The House voted 232-197 to impeach the president, with 10 members of Trump's Republican Party joining 222 Democrats. Here are some of the possible scenarios after the House impeached Trump for inciting last week's attack by his supporters on the US Capitol as Congress certified Democrat Joe Biden's presidential election victory: Senate trialNow that Trump has been impeached, it is up ...
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Impeachment of a US president and how it works
Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming the first US president to have been impeached twice, with the House of Representatives beginning a debate Wednesday on accusations he incited an insurrection at the US Capitol last week. No president has been ousted from office by impeachment, but even the threat can bring one down -- Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 to avoid certain removal in the Watergate scandal. Three presidents have beaten the process: the House formally impeached Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998, but in both cases they were acquitted in the Senate....
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