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Trump is finally facing impeachment, but another, bigger cover-up is continuing in broad daylight

The policies and policymakers who laid the groundwork for Trump, and enabled his misdeeds, are going unquestioned, writes Andrew Bacevich.

Mitt Romney said everyone in the Senate is 'really nice' except for Bernie Sanders, who 'just kind of scowls'

Romney has emerged as one of the few Republican senators willing to take a stand against Trump, but he says most people are really nice.

Trump said the emoluments clause is 'phony.' But it's part of the US Constitution.

The emoluments clause bars public officials from receiving gifts or cash from foreign or state governments without congressional approval.

Pompeo says Trump is ‘fully prepared’ to take military action against Turkey if necessary, which would shatter NATO to pieces

This comment came a little over two weeks after Trump's decision to withdraw US troops from northeast Syria, which paved the way for Turkey to invade.

Nancy Pelosi led a bipartisan delegation to Jordan to talk Middle East peace amid the Syrian crisis

Pelosi was joined by other House members in Jordan on Saturday for diplomacy meetings with top officials, including King Abdullah II and his son.

The White House is 'trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube' after Mick Mulvaney's disastrous press conference

The knives are out for Mick Mulvaney after he essentially acknowledged in a press conference that Trump promised a quid pro quo with Ukraine.

Trump is said to believe that the Democrats will never impeach him, despite his aides' desperate attempts to get him to prepare for it

President Donald Trump seems to think a Democratic impeachment inquiry may not pose a threat — a view some around him consider dangerously complacent.

Mitt Romney operates a secret Twitter account where he defends himself against critics and slams Trump's policies

Romney admitted Sunday that he operates an account under the alias Pierre Dilecto which he has used to like his own tweets and challenge critics.

Almost all Republicans — especially Fox News viewers — opposed Trump's impeachment before the inquiry was opened, new poll finds

In a poll before the Ukraine scandal, 98% of Republicans who said Fox News was their main news source said Trump shouldn't be impeachment and removed.

Wall Street keeps embarrassing itself every time Trump talks about China

Stocks leap every time President Donald Trump claims to have a trade deal with China. The deal is never really there, and Wall Street just looks dumb.

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