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WASHINGTON (AP) - The lead prosecutor for President Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment began building his case for conviction at trial, asserting on Sunday that Trump’s incitement of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol was “the most dangerous crime” ever committed by a president against the United States. A Senate trial could begin as soon as this week, just as Democrat Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., did not say when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., will send the single article of impeachment against Trump - for “incitement of insurrection” - to...

Absolutely spot on lesson from Dave Miller on America's pending demise: Click here for an audio lesson which warns us.

Liz Cheney and Kevin McCarthy are making two very different bets on Donald Trump — and the one who guesses right may find themselves with a future leading the GOP. The decision by Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican, to split with the minority leader and embrace Trump’s impeachment marks the most dramatic rift in the upper rungs of GOP leadership since Trump took office. It caps a years-long tussle between the party leaders over how closely the GOP should align itself with Trump and where the party should go after he leaves office.

“The Republican nominee for president will be that candidate who best learns that there is no future in apologizing,” I wrote in a June 10, 2015, column. Six days later Donald Trump descended the escalator at Trump Tower and, in so doing, launched the most volatile period in American history since the Civil War. I wish I could say I had Trump in mind when I wrote the above, but as right as my prediction proved to be, I did not even know Trump was running. His refusal to back down or apologize came at a huge personal cost, but...

Rep. Liz Cheney, the House's No. 3 Republican, said Tuesday she would vote to impeach President Donald Trump. The House's vote is expected Wednesday, a week after a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, temporarily disrupting the counting of electoral votes. "The president of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack," the Wyoming congresswoman charged in a statement.

Apparently according to Twitter multiple sources are saying at approximately midnight last night Trump signed the Insurrection Act, meaning he has invoked it. Can anyone else confirm?

A federal prosecutor, questioned about President Trump’s role in the Capitol riots, refused to rule out criminal charges. Michael Sherwin, the acting U.S. Attorney for D.C., repeatedly assured reporters in a press call that he would investigate and charge “all actors” involved in Wednesday’s riot. Journalists pressed Sherwin about Trump’s speech and what motivating factor it may have been in inciting supporters to storm the Capitol. “I don’t want to sound like a broken record,” Sherwin said following a question specifically about the President. “I’m going to stand by my earlier statement – we’re looking at all actors here, and...

I have never been in favor of blowing the whole thing up and starting over where the Republican Party is concerned. At similar junctures in the past, such as January 2009, it has always seemed to be that it would be more productive to work to reform the GOP from within. Given this current situation, and the near-universal disaffection of Trump voters from the GOP representatives they have sadly helped to elect, it is difficult to maintain that outlook any longer. At best, the Republican Party has proven itself to be largely corrupt and hopelessly inept over the past four...