The execution comes days before Trump’s successor Joe Biden takes office with a promise to try to end the death penalty.
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Twitter banned the outgoing president in the wake of the attack on the US Capitol by a pro-Trump mob last week.
This, analysts say, further highlights the division in the party over Trump’s refusal to concede the November 3 presidential election based on his unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud.
For the past four years, I have been cursing Steve Bannon, arguably the architect and the most significant force behind the Donald Trump victory. Bannon grasped that in the digital age, political ideas must be draped over distinctive personalities to cut through the babel of electronic noises.
“I want to be very clear: I unequivocally condemn the violence that we saw last week,” Trump said in a video message posted by the White House on Twitter.
“There is simply no chance that a fair or serious trial could conclude before President-elect Biden is sworn in next week,” McConnell said in a statement shared on Twitter.
While voting is still under way, a majority of lawmakers has already voted to impeach
In a letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, Pence slammed Democratic efforts to pressure him into invoking the 25th Amendment, calling it “political games”
Given a reported tweet by US President Donald Trump who was quoted to have said that Vice President Mike Pence has the power to reject the verdict of the electoral college, which returned Joe Biden as the winner of the election by a wide margin of 306 to 232 for President Trump, there was the anxiety that the election of the world acclaimed most powerful democracy is about to be manipulated and victory taken away from the winner.
An internal FBI bulletin obtained by ABC News warned that the armed actions are being planned “at all 50 state capitols” between January 16 and 20
Vice President Mike Pence was presiding over a joint session of Congress to certify the November 3 presidential election won by Joe Biden when armed Trump supporters stormed the building, forcing a shutdown
CNN previously reported, citing sources, that an officer involved in dispersing the pro-Trump riot had died, however USCP initially refuted this information.
The Wall Street Journal reported the development on Thursday, citing the resignation letter.
The social media giant had initially temporarily suspended Trump’s account following his instigation of a mob that stormed Capitol Hill to disrupt Congress’s ratification of the election of Joe Biden as the US president effective January 20, 2021
Your dark heart, sheer cruelty and sadistic disposition and your hateful, uncouth, unlettered and ignorant assertions never cease to amaze me! Frankly I do not know whether to laugh or cry!
The paper cited two anonymous sources said to be privy to Trump discussing the subject with his aides.
She is the first cabinet member to quit over the incident, which drew outrage from within the country and around the world.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Senator Chuck Schumer of New York called on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment, which allows him and the cabinet to wrest the power of the presidency from Mr. Trump.
“We are again drawing attention to the fact that the U.S. electoral system is archaic, it does not meet today’s democratic standards,” ministry spokeswoman Maria Sakharova told the Interfax agency.
A judge at an investigative court in Baghdad issued the warrant under Iraq’s penal code, the Supreme Judiciary Council, Iraq’s highest judicial authority, said in a statement.