Monday 17 May, 2021
Elise Stefanik has repeated many of the former president’s claims about election fraud.
In a statement this morning after the vote, Trump said “Liz Cheney is a bitter, horrible human being”.
The board said Trump “created an environment where a serious risk of violence was possible”.
The Facebook Oversight Board will rule on Trump’s ongoing ban this afternoon.
Facebook’s independent oversight board is ruling tomorrow on whether to allow Trump back on the platform.
The announcement was made by the Twitter Safety Team in a blog post.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said there was no changing of ballots or altering of the voting process.
Trump had a message for the Republicans who voted to impeach and convict him: “Get rid of them all”.
The 46th president has been undoing dozens of Trump orders since taking office.
The nation’s highest court denied the request filed by lawyers for the former president without comment.
Trumpism within the Republican party could be here to stay – with or without the man himself – according to columnist Larry Donnelly.
Some Republicans fear Trump’s continued presence could harm their chances at future elections.
Another complaint relating to an on-air jingle on Today FM was also rejected by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.
Trump also criticised McConnell for failing to do more to back his unfounded claims of election fraud.
It is the first case in an expected wave of litigation over the 6 January riot.
Legislators are pushing for an independent commission to prevent any repeat of the insurrection.
The second impeachment trial of former US President Donald Trump ended in a similar manner to the first with his acquittal.
The former president was defiant after his acquittal in the Senate impeachment trial last night.
The five-day trial concluded last night as expected – with most Republicans declaring Trump not guilty.
The former US president was accused of inciting the deadly riot at the US Capitol last month.
Footage shows the vice president being rushed to safety, where he sheltered in an office with his family just 100 feet from the rioters.
The second day of Trump’s impeachment trial is underway this evening.
Securing a conviction is highly unlikely, as the Democrats would need 17 Republican senators to vote with them to make a two-thirds majority.
A vote on whether it is constitutionally permissible to prosecute Trump will take place later tonight.
The trial is set to begin at 6pm Irish time.
Lawyers for the former president have attacked the case on multiple grounds.
The proceedings are scheduled to begin tomorrow, just over a month since the deadly riot at the US Capitol.
Larry Donnelly analyses the new US President’s first few weeks in action.
The regular briefings are usually offered to former presidents after they leave office.
Donald Trump has resigned from the Screen Actors Guild (Sag-Aftra), the union for US performers on film and TV.
Donald Trump’s legal team are expected to argue that the US Senate cannot impeach the ex-president as he is no longer in office.
There have been calls for Marjorie Taylor Greene to be punished for her online embrace of racist views and bizarre conspiracy theories.
An estimated 600 to 700 children remain apart from their families.
Donald Trump had wanted the lawyers to continue his baseless claims of mass election fraud.
The trial’s first procedural vote, a 55-45 tally against dismissing the impeachment, suggests Trump still has GOP support.
Arguments in the Senate trial will begin on the week of 8 February.
Dominion Voting Systems said Giuliani had damaged its reputation by alleging its widely used voting machines were part of a “massive fraud”.
The impeachment trial is scheduled for the second week of February.
