Impeachment

Anti-Israel US Republican rep. Thomas Massie seeks Hegseth's impeachment over Iran war

Republican Rep. Thomas Massie launched an impeachment effort against Pete Hegseth over the Iran war, while polls show voters remain uneasy about the conflict ahead of midterm elections.

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US Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) speaks with a reporter after introducing a resolution to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
Illustrative: A reveller wears a Democrat badge as guests wait for the results of the US presidential election at an election night party at the US Embassy in central London on November 7, 2012.

Democrats eye Trump allies, companies in post-midterm investigations

Democrats are laying the groundwork for investigations into Trump's business and political orbit, with impeachment unlikely to be their first move.

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MAJOR JASON Watson on the steps of the US Capitol building protesting US President Donald Trump and demanding his impeachement.

US Air Force officer under investigation after calling for Trump's impeachment

The active-duty officer, Major Jason Watson, denounced Trump and Vance on Wednesday for actions including going to war with Iran without congressional authorization, according to a video.

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump gestures as he addresses House Republicans at their annual issues conference retreat, at the Kennedy Center, renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center by the Trump-appointed board of directors, in Washington, DC, US, January 6, 2026.

Trump declares he will get impeached if Republicans lose midterms, plans to meet health insurers

Trump spoke to House Republicans at the Kennedy Center, a Washington performing arts center that was recently renamed to include a mention of Trump.

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Romney breaks from Republicans, votes 'guilty' in Trump impeachment trial

Romney voted 'guilty' on the first impeachment charge, abuse of power, siding with the Senate's 45 Democrats and two independents. He voted 'not guilty' on the second charge, obstruction of Congress.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020ByREUTERS
US Senator Mitt Romney announces his intention to vote to convict US president Donald Trump for abuse of power during Senate debate ahead of the resumption and final vote in the Trump impeachment trial in this frame grab from video shot in the Senate Chamber at the US Capitol in Washington, February

Senate acquits Trump in historic vote as re-election battle looms

The Senate voted 52-48 to acquit him of abuse of power and then voted 53-47 to acquit him of obstruction of Congress.

FEBRUARY 5, 2020ByREUTERS
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Sunrise, Florida, U.S., November 26, 2019

Trump addresses war on terror, Mideast peace during SOTU

Jewish Democratic Council of America: “President Trump doesn’t represent the views and values of American Jews."

FEBRUARY 5, 2020ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN, IDAN ZONSHINE, REUTERS
U.S. President Trump delivers State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington

The week of Kobe Bryant, impeachment and the Trump peace plan

President Donald J. Trump’s “Deal of the Century” was more commercial break than news item

FEBRUARY 4, 2020ByMICAH HALPERN
‘THE DEAL had been trumpeted for so long, and its announcement promised and then postponed so many times, so that for American audiences when it was finally unfurled, it became a one-day non-event.’

Republican Rand Paul names purported 'whistleblower' in the Senate

Paul uttered the name in a question that US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts had earlier declined to read as the presiding officer of the trial.

FEBRUARY 4, 2020ByREUTERS
US Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)

Dershowitz: never meant that the president can do anything for reelection

The well known lawyer said that most followers of the Senate Impeachment Trial did not actually watch the proceedings, and have relied on deliberately skewed interpretations of his argument.

JANUARY 31, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz

Brooklyn bakery wants to deliver impeachment cakes to all 53 GOP senators

"With this GoFundMe, we will deliver an #ImpeachmentCake to every Republican Senator's office. Written in the frosting will be a simple message: Let Bolton Testify!"

JANUARY 30, 2020ByRACHEL WOLF
President Donald Trump speaks as he welcomes Paraguay s President Mario Abdo Benitez to the White House in the Oval Office on December 13, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

Republicans hope Senate impeachment trial will acquit Trump by Friday

Trump's lawyer Alan Dershowitz offered an expansive defense of presidential power that provoked astonishment among Democrats.

JANUARY 30, 2020ByREUTERS
DONALD TRUMP. His administration adopted measures that promoted the principles of the plan

Trump impeachment trial nears end of initial phase in US Senate

An acquittal would allow the Republican president to claim vindication and put the threat to his presidency behind him as Americans begin focusing on the Democratic race to choose his challenger.

JANUARY 30, 2020ByREUTERS
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks to members of the news media during the Senate Impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 21, 2020.

Amid uncertainty on witnesses, Trump legal team wraps up opening arguments

Adam Schiff, who served as the lead Democratic prosecutor in arguing the case against Trump last week, said witnesses would be needed for the trial to be considered fair.

JANUARY 29, 2020ByREUTERS
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) leaves the Senate floor at the end of the day's Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in Washington, U.S., January 28, 2020.