Trump news: Republicans attempt to stonewall impeachment hearing as witnesses outline damning evidence to remove president
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump has claimed victory after Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz released his report claiming that the FBI did not pursue a politically motivated investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign — but that agents did tend to favour damaging evidence over exculpatory evidence as the investigation continued.
The report was released as House Judiciary Committee presented and reviewed the evidence accumulated so far in the impeachment inquiry, with charges against the president expected to be drawn up by the end of the week ahead of a potential pre-Christmas vote in the House of Representatives.
During the hearing, Democrats sought to impress upon the American people that the evidence against Mr Trump was nearly undeniable.
Republicans, meanwhile, did their best to throw the hearing off the traicks and raise as many distractions as possible.
The president is meanwhile under fire for hosting pardoned war criminals - army first lieutenant Clint Lorance and major Mathew Golsteyn - at a Florida Republican Party fundraising dinner over the weekend.
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Ohio Republican Jim Jordan is now beginning his questioning.
Here's his tweet criticising the process earlier in the day:
A message responding to Jim Jordan's line of questioning from the attorney for a whistleblower whose complaint sparked the impeachment inquiry:
Donald Trump has praised the Department of Justice inspector general report, claiming that the report showed an effort to overthrow the government — even though the report insisted the opposite.
The president falsely claimed during a White House meeting that the report — which found evidence of mistakes by American officials, but debunked claims of a conspiracy against the Trump campaign —had shown an effort to "overthrow" the US government, and that it was "far worse" than he expected.
"It is incredible. Far worse than I would've ever thought possible. And it's an embarrassment to our country, it's dishonest," Mr Trump said.
Mr Trump continued for a while, before adding: "This was an overthrow of government. This was an attempted overthrow, and a lot of people were in on it and they got caught."
From the 2020 campaign trail. A brief break from the hearing today:
A new report indicates that William Barr told Trump that Rudy Giuliani was a liability — and that the personal lawyer was not serving him well.
The new report was published in the Washington Post, and quotes sevearl unnamed officials.
Here's some potential good news for exactly two Democratic presidential contenders:
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