Apr 11, 2022 · eastman, a right-wing lawyer who drafted a plan for former president donald trump to cling to power by falsely claiming then-vice president mike pence could reject legitimate electors during the 2020 presidential election, was part of a small group of trump allies who secured a private meeting last month to try and convince the republican leader …
Aug 02, 2021 · Trump’s lawyers reaped a windfall during his impeachment trial. Kasowitz, Benson, Torres, a firm founded by longtime attorney Marc Kasowitz, received $2.5 million from Trump’s Make America Great...
Apr 13, 2022 · Ivanka Trump. Businesswoman. Pat Cipollone. American lawyer. Two of Donald Trump’s top White House lawyers are slated to speak with the Jan. 6 select committee Wednesday, according to one person ...
1 day ago · William Barr. 77th and 85th United States Attorney General. Donald Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity that former Attorney General William Barr should have had the “courage” to risk being impeached by backing up Trump’s false claims of election fraud in 2020. We “had a chance” to change the election results, Trump told Hannity on ...
The House voted to impeach Trump last month over remarks he made to his supporters prior to the Jan. 6 riot, which led to the deaths of several people and failed to halt Congress’s certification of the Electoral College results.
Wrong. Impeachment is not a criminal proceeding. It's political. They have different rules of evidence and have limited forms of punishment, none of which is prison. "You don't even have to be convicted of a crime...". -Lindsey Graham. see more. −. +.
Right, Republicans expect the impeachment process to behave like a criminal court when Democrats try to prosecute. Which it isn't. But for Republicans they expect the impeachment trial to behave like a kangaroo court when they submit evidence without any context or relevance to defense. see more. Show more replies.
Mr. Bowers is the only lawyer whom Mr. Trump’s aides had confirmed would defend the former president. Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of Mr. Trump’s who represents South Carolina, was said to have helped line up Mr. Bowers, a well-known figure in the political world there who was working to establish a broader team.
The second impeachment trial is set to begin on Feb. 9. This week, 45 Republican senators voted in support of a measure brought forward by Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky calling the trial unconstitutional because Mr. Trump is no longer in office. That all but five Republican senators voted to challenge the constitutionality ...
The Senate needs a two-thirds majority, or 67 votes, to convict Mr. Trump, meaning 17 Republicans would need to cross party lines to side with Democrats in finding him guilty. An additional vote, this one requiring a simple majority, would be needed to disqualify him from holding office again.
They include Jay Sekulow, the former White House counsel Pat A. Cipollone and his deputy, Pat Philbin, and another lawyer who worked in the West Wing, Eric Herschmann. Rudolph W. Giuliani, who worked as Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer during the special counsel’s investigation into whether the Trump campaign in 2016 had colluded with Russian officials, ...
A third lawyer, Josh Howard, of North Carolina, is also no longer part of the team, another person familiar with the situation said. And two other lawyers from South Carolina, Johnny Gasser and Greg Harris, will also no longer be involved, one of the people familiar with the situation said.
The decision for Mr. Bowers to leave was “mutual,” another person familiar with the situation said, adding that Mr. Trump and Mr. Bowers had no chemistry, a quality the former president generally prizes in his relationships. Mr.
He first complained at his own agency, sending word through a colleague to a CIA lawyer. The complaint eventually reached the spy agency's top lawyer, Elwood, officials said. She was told there were concerns about the president's conduct on a call ...
At the end of August, the acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, sent the Justice Department his own criminal referral based on the whistleblower complaint, he has confirmed.
WASHINGTON — Weeks before the whistleblower's complaint became public, the CIA's top lawyer made what she considered to be a criminal referral to the Justice Department about the whistleblower's allegations that President Donald Trump abused his office in pressuring the Ukrainian president, U.S. officials familiar with the matter tell NBC News.
A senior DOJ lawyer who briefed reporters said the department had no basis on which to open a criminal investigation because Trump's request of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate a case involving his political opponent couldn't amount to a quantifiable "thing of value" under campaign finance law.
Justice Department officials now say they didn't consider the phone conversation a formal criminal referral because it was not in written form. A separate criminal referral came later from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which was based solely on the whistleblower's official written complaint.
The phone call that Elwood considered to be a criminal referral is in addition to the referral later received as a letter from the Inspector General for the Intelligence Community regarding the whistleblower complaint. Justice Department officials said they were unclear whether Elwood was making a criminal referral and followed up ...
A Justice Department official said Attorney General William Barr was made aware of the conversation with Elwood and Eisenberg, and their concerns about the president's behavior, in the days that followed. Justice Department officials now say they didn't consider the phone conversation a formal criminal referral because it was not in written form. ...