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Trump is a ‘very dangerous man’, says George Bush’s former ethics lawyer
Richard Painter was the chief ethics lawyer under President Bush. He left the Republican Party in 2018.
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Trump to become first US President to be impeached twice
A week after the violent raid on Capitol Hill and a week before the inauguration of President Biden, Donald Trump will become the first president in American history to be impeached twice.
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‘Difficult to get the genie back in the bottle’ after Capitol riots, says extremism expert
Dr Cynthia Miller-Idriss is an expert on political extremism at the American University in Washington DC and the author of ‘Hate in the Homeland’.
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Loyalty of Trump’s diehard supporters has not wavered
Donald Trump got 74 million votes in the last election – and the loyalty of his diehard supporters has not wavered.
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Congress to vote on removing Trump from office
The US Congress is debating a move calling for the removal of Donald J Trump from office under the 25th Amendment.
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Will Trump survive his last few days in office?
Today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to move towards impeaching Donald Trump claiming he incited an insurrection on the Capitol last week.
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Donald Trump banned from Twitter over the risk of inciting violence
A Republican senator has now joined the growing calls for Donald Trump to be removed from office.
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John Bolton: Trump should resign and be investigated for alleged sedition
We spoke to John Bolton, who was Donald Trump’s national security adviser, and began by asking whether the President should face a criminal investigation.
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Trump to snub Biden inauguration as he faces impeachment calls
Washington and the US are still reeling from Wednesday’s extraordinary events.
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US political divide ‘vastly greater than that of any advanced democracy’ – political scientist Ian Bremmer
Joe Biden has condemned what he called the “unprecedented assault” on American democracy. Just days ago a political risk group predicted that division in the United States would be the biggest global threat of 2021 – bigger, even, than Covid. The Eurasia group put Biden’s presidency at the world’s number one risk – ahead of…
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‘This has everything to do with race from top to bottom’ – Prof Timothy Snyder on Capitol siege
We spoke to Timothy Snyder, a professor of History at Yale University who has argued the way President Trump has behaved throughout his term has been heading towards tyranny.
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Law enforcement response to Capitol siege ‘was botched from the get-go’ says former US Secretary of Homeland Security
Janet Napolitano was the US Secretary of Homeland Security during President Obama’s first term of office.
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What next for Donald Trump?
For his entire presidency, Donald Trump has been accused of harnessing the hate that was unleashed on Capitol Hill. But will that be his legacy? How will the Republican leaders whose support enabled him, and President-elect Biden, who will succeed him, move forward from here?
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‘We need Republicans and Democrats to come forward and remove [Trump] from office’ – Democrat Barbara Lee
Barbara Lee is a long-serving Democratic congresswoman.
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Republican politician says Capitol riots have ‘wiped out’ the party’s accomplishments
One of those inside the building when the demonstrators burst in was the newly elected Republican representative for South Carolina, Nancy Mace. We spoke to her earlier and began by asking her for her reaction as the Capitol was stormed yesterday.