Donald Trump Impeachment

Trump could be barred from holding office if FBI finds classified documents

The reports coming in indicate that Donald Trump had taken some classified documents with him. if any such documents are found at his home, he would be barred from holding any office for life

Enough evidence uncovered to indict Trump: Jan 6 violence panelists

Members of the House committee investigating the Capitol riot said they have uncovered enough evidence for the Justice Department to consider an unprecedented criminal indictment against Donald Trump

Best of BS Opinion: Fragile democracy, IBC set to resume, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Fragile democracy

Sustaining it is a high-maintenance exercise

Donald Trump looks to reassert himself after impeachment acquittal

Donald Trump took in the win at Mar-a-Lago, surrounded by friends and family

US Senate acquits Trump over Capitol violence following impeachment trial

Senate voted 57-43 to convict the former prez but fell 10 votes short of the 67 needed for conviction

Impeachment trial: Donald Trump's defense wraps up case in three hours

The defense attorneys for Donald Trump have wrapped up their presentation in the former president's impeachment trial. Lawyers argued for three hours Friday that Trump didn't incite the January 6 rally crowd to riot at the US Capitol and that his words were merely figures of speech. They say the case against Trump was a political witch-hunt by Democrats and was not valid because he is no longer in office. Their truncated defense barely used the full time allotted, 16 hours over two days. Many senators minds appear already made up. Trump is accused of incitement of insurrection in the mob siege at the Capitol. Five people died. Senators will next be able to ask the lawyers questions when the trial resumes. The strategy from Donald Trump's lawyers is to concede that violence at the US Capitol on January 6 was every bit as traumatic, unacceptable and illegal as Democrats say. But his team disputes that Trump had anything to do with it. The goal is to blunt the impact of the House ...

Donald Trump did not cause Jan 6 riots at Capitol, his lawyers tell Senate

There is a complete lack of evidence on the article of impeachment against Donald Trump, his lawyers told the United States Senate on Friday

Donald Trump's lawyers decry impeachment case as political vengeance

Lawyers for Trump opened his impeachment defense Friday by strenuously denying he played any role in inciting the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol

Rioters acted on Trump's 'orders', Democrats say in impeachment trial

Videos of rioters, some posted to social medial by themselves, talked about how they were doing it all for Trump

Senate votes to proceed with Donald Trump's second impeachment trial

The 56-to-44 vote was the second indication in two weeks that Trump was all but certain to be acquitted

US President Biden says he won't watch Trump's impeachment proceedings

US President Joe Biden on Tuesday told reporters in the Oval Office that he has no plans to watch former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial

Trump unhappy with attorney's opening statement during impeachment trial

Former President Donald Trump is reportedly unhappy with his defense attorney Bruce Castor's opening argument on the Senate floor this afternoon, according to two people familiar with his reaction

Six Republican Senators also say Trump's impeachment trial constitutional

Six Republican Senators joined their Democratic colleagues in the United States Senate on Tuesday to vote that the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump is constitutional

Senate agrees to hear Trump impeachment case, rejecting GOP arguments

Trump is the first president to face impeachment charges after leaving office and the first to be twice impeached

Donald Trump impeachment to open with debate on constitutionality

Under the terms of the trial being negotiated, it would launch first with a debate over its constitutionality, a key argument of the former president's defense

Donald Trump impeachment trial to open with sense of urgency, speed

Trump's second impeachment trial is opening this week with a sense of urgency by Democrats who want to hold the former president accountable for the violent US Capitol siege

Senate Republicans back Donald Trump on the eve of impeachment trial

Donald Trump's defenders in the Senate rallied around the former president before his impeachment trial, dismissing it as a waste of time

Explainer: How Donald Trump's second impeachment trial will work

Former US President Donald Trump's historic second impeachment trial begins Tuesday

AP-NORC poll: Americans are split on Donald Trump's impeachment

About half of Americans say the Senate should vote to convict former President Donald Trump at the end of his impeachment trial