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The outcome of the impeachment trial of Donald Trump never really was in much doubt, but that doesn't mean that the whole exercise was a waste of time. What the week's events showed is the need for much more investigating and scrutiny of the events of January 6, the kind of who knew what and when that the attack on…

FIFTH UPDATE: The Senate voted to acquit former President Donald Trump on the impeachment charge of inciting the Jan. 6 siege at the Capitol, bringing to an end a trial that lasted just five days. The Senate voted 57-43 to convict Trump, short of the 67 votes needed. Seven Republicans joined with 48 Democrats and two…

SECOND UPDATE, 3:36 PM PT: The Q&A session of the trial has ended, but one of the most perplexing moments came when Donald Trump’s legal team was asked when the then-president was made aware that Vice President Mike Pence in danger. The question from Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) is one that has been on the minds of many at…

UPDATED with Day 4 details: The prosecution has rested in the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, and now it’s the defense’s turn. The proceedings in the U.S. Senate are set to continue Friday at noon ET/9 a.m. PT. Day 4 of the trial featured the Democrats impeachment managers summarizing their…

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell sat at his desk, rarely if ever distracted from the case being laid out against Donald Trump by House impeachment managers this week. That was certainly not the case with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who at one point tapped a pencil on his desk, and at another fidgeted his…

We've gone just over two weeks now without hearing much of anything from Donald Trump: Banned from Twitter, absent from Fox & Friends call-ins, the former president has been unusually low key at his Mar-A-Lago estate in Florida. That will change  Tuesday, when he will once again be at the center of the media…

Trevor Noah thinks the lawyers defending President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial, including Ken Starr and Alan Dershowitz, doth protest too much. The Daily Show host recapped the latest developments in the Senate proceedings and noted that the Democrats had concluded their arguments. “Now Trump’s defense is…

Day one of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial got underway Tuesday, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) laying out the rules and proposing some last-minute changes in an effort to speed up the process. Tonight on the CBS Late Show, Stephen Colbert said he hopes Trump is found guilty of breaking…

On the eve of President Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial, Stephen Colbert attempted to dismantle Trump’s defense. Colbert resurrected his “Don And The Giant Impeach” segment Monday night on the CBS Late Show, to recap recent developments and offer his take on the historic case. House impeachment managers filed…