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House Republicans voted Tuesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas ― not for any legitimate reason, but because they really want to help Donald Trump look tough on immigration issues ahead of the November presidential election. The final vote was 214 to 213. A handful of Republicans joined all Democrats in opposing the effort: Reps. Ken Buck (Colo.), Tom McClintock (Calif.) and Mike Gallagher (Wis.). The only other time Congress has impeached a cabinet secretary was in… Source link

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) put Donald Trump on blast on Monday ― and at one point found a dismissive way to refer to the former president without even using his name. “I’ll just use this word that is really lacking on the Republican side, both in the Congress and with what’s-his-name who used to be president,” the former House speaker said on CNN. “Respect.” The moment came during a discussion with Anderson Cooper about current House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who lost two… Source link

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump called Monday night for a leadership change at the Republican National Committee in an attempt to install a new slate of loyalists — including his daughter-in-law — atop the GOP’s political machine even before the former president formally secures the party’s next presidential nomination. Current RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel says she has no plans to leave the committee until at least after South Carolina’s Feb. 24 primary election. Still, Trump is calling for… Source link

Maj. Michael Haley, the husband of GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley, hit back at former President Donald Trump’s questioning of his whereabouts with a meme on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Haley has since June 2023 been deployed to Africa with the South Carolina Army National Guard. But Trump didn’t let the truth get in the way of an attack on his Republican primary rival Nikki Haley when he told a campaign rally in Conway, in her home state of South Carolina, at the… Source link

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump said that, as president, he warned NATO allies that he “would encourage” Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to countries that are “delinquent” as the front-runner for the Republican nomination ramped up his attacks on foreign aid and long-standing international alliances. NATO’s leader said Trump’s words could undermine security and put American and European forces at risk. Speaking at a rally Saturday in Conway, South Carolina, Trump… Source link

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump issued a warning to the Republican National Committee’s chairwoman in an interview aired Sunday, saying when asked about her that there would “probably be some changes made.” Trump had been asked by Fox News host Maria Bartiromo about Ronna McDaniel, who has been facing withering attacks from some Trump allies, including the group Turning Point, which was part of an unsuccessful effort to oust her last year. “I think she did great when she ran… Source link

Donald Trump reportedly believes he will be convicted of attempting to overturn the result of the 2020 election in a trial later this year. The former president expects a jury in Washington DC will find him guilty of conspiring to “defraud the American people” on four charges that carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, Axios reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources. Such a verdict could throw his reelection campaign into disarray. The trial was scheduled to begin on March 4 and… Source link

Former President Donald Trump takes the witness stand in the second civil defamation trial brought against him by columnist E. Jean Carroll. His lawyers join a motion by a co-defendant in the Georgia election interference case to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis because of allegations of an improper relationship with the lead prosecutor in the case. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, meanwhile, sentences Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser in Trump’s administration, to… Source link

Nikki Haley addresses members of the media on Tuesday near a polling site at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, N.H. (Steven Senne/AP) Nikki Haley made it very clear today that she has no plans to drop out of the Republican presidential race after the New Hampshire primary, regardless of the outcome. Why? Well, her campaign released a 715-word memo explaining that a majority of the states that have yet to hold primaries allow independent voters — who Haley hopes to win over — to take… Source link

Northwestern University marketing professor Ashlee Humphreys testifies that it would cost between $7.2 and $12.1 million to rectify the damage to columnist E. Jean Carroll’s reputation caused by former President Donald Trump’s persistent attacks on her character. Rather than return to court, Trump attends his mother-in-law’s funeral in Florida, but Carroll’s lawyers show a video clip shot the day before of him demeaning her following her testimony. Trump’s lawyers file a brief… Source link