Trump testifies he feared being hit by ‘very dangerous’ fruit
In New York, ex-president Donald Trump testified under oath that he feared protesters would pelt him with “very dangerous” fruit like pineapples, tomatoes, and bananas saying: “You can get killed with those things.” The comments were revealed in court documents made public Tuesday which included a transcript of a deposition Trump gave last October as […]
What’s next for Trump, the Republican Party and Biden?
WASHINGTON: The US Senate acquitted Donald Trump on Saturday of the charge of inciting the January 6 assault on the US Capitol in an unprecedented second impeachment trial. Trump’s acquittal raises questions about what’s next for the 74-year-old former president, the Republican Party and President Joe Biden. Donald Trump Although Trump’s acquittal by the Senate […]
Trump, after acquittal, says movement ‘has only just begun’
WASHINGTON: Former US president Donald Trump on Saturday welcomed his acquittal in the US Senate on an impeachment charge and said his political movement “has only just begun”. “Our historic, patriotic and beautiful movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun,” Trump said in a statement issued just moments after the Senate vote. […]
Departing Trump gets his parade but little love
JOINT BASE ANDREWS, United States: Donald Trump wanted a hero’s send-off Wednesday and the ceremony arranged for him at an Air Force Base outside Washington looked just like one. But one thing was missing: the big crowd he loves. With less than four hours left before Joe Biden took over, Trump had to rush to […]
Trump to snub Biden’s inauguration
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump is expected to be out of town well before Biden is sworn in on the steps of the Capitol building at exactly noon. By the time Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th US president on Wednesday (Jan 20), Trump will already have helicoptered out of the White House for the […]
US House urges Pence to invoke 25th Amendment to remove Trump
WASHINGTON: The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives passed a resolution urging US Vice President Mike Pence to invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office for his role in the Capitol Hill riots, despite the fact the vice president ahead of the vote warned the move would set a terrible […]
Trump signs spending Bill that includes coronavirus relief legislation
MOSCOW: Incumbent United States President Donald Trump has signed the coronavirus relief and government spending Bill, Trump said in a statement. “I am signing this Bill to restore unemployment benefits, stop evictions, provide rental assistance, add money for PPP, return our airline workers back to work, add substantially more money for vaccine distribution, and much […]
Trump fires US Cybersecurity Chief
WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump tweeted on Tuesday that Chris Krebs has been terminated as director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. “The recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 Election was highly inaccurate … Therefore, effective immediately, Chris Krebs has been terminated as director of the Cybersecurity […]
Trump says he won presidential election in Pennsylvania
MOSCOW: Incumbent United States President Donald Trump said that he had won the presidential election in Pennsylvania as some 700,000 ballots had not been counted in this battleground state. On Friday, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has rejected a Republican Party lawsuit seeking to invalidate nearly 10,000 late-arriving ballots in Pennsylvania, […]
Why is US vote count taking so long?
WASHINGTON: Three days after polls closed, the United States and the world still do not have final results from the presidential election, although Democrat Joe Biden was on the brink of unseating Donald Trump. The wait has fuelled tension across the polarised nation, with Trump alleging without evidence that Democrats are engineering fraud. But the […]
