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Byline: ERNA PARIS Lead Author of Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History 'He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past controls the future,' wrote George [...]

Even after his defeat, Donald Trump is causing fierce infighting among Republicans in a crucial battleground state. Loyalists are rewarded. Dissenters face punishment. ROCKFORD, Mich. -- When Representative Peter Meijer [...]

Byline: Mike DeBonis WASHINGTON - Former president Donald Trump lashed out at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday for a 'lack of political insight, wisdom, skill, and personality,' days [...]

Byline: Colby Itkowitz WASHINGTON - Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of insults at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who last week voted to acquit Trump but also said the former [...]

Byline: Susan Page, Washington Bureau Chief, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - The impeachment trial of Donald Trump is over, again. The 2020 election? Not so much. November's contest wasn't close - [...]

Byline: Bart Jansen, Christal Hayes, Nicholas Wu and Ledyard King, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - The Senate on Saturday acquitted former President Donald Trump a second time after a historic trial [...]

Byline: David Jackson, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Donald Trump thanked Senate Republicans - most of them - for his impeachment acquittal on Saturday and proclaimed that the political movement he [...]

Byline: David Jackson, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Republican senators acquitted Donald Trump of inciting an insurrection. History isn't likely to be so kind. The video evidence of Trump supporters storming [...]

G.O.P. lawmakers were unlikely to convict Trump. But a different approach to impeachment would have been more difficult for them to ignore. Probably nothing could have moved enough Republican senators [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake The impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump has ended with his acquittal - the second in two impeachments. Here are final points on the trial. - [...]

Byline: Colbert I. King For Print Use Only. It comes as no surprise that most Senate Republicans would prostrate themselves for former president Donald Trump even if he were stomping [...]

Byline: Philip Bump As the Senate trial judging Donald Trump's second impeachment got underway on Tuesday, his lead defense attorney, Bruce Castor, offered an unexpected rationale for setting the impeachment [...]

Byline: Max Boot For Print Use Only. In the 1987 movie 'The Untouchables,' Eliot Ness, played by Kevin Costner, uncovers last-minute evidence that Al Capone (Robert De Niro) bribed the [...]

Byline: Amy Gardner, Mike DeBonis, Seung Min Kim and Karoun Demirjian WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans voted against convicting Donald Trump Saturday for inciting his supporters to storm the Capitol Jan. [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin For Print Use Only. After a blockbuster scoop from CNN's Jamie Gangel on Friday night, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., released a statement concerning the desperate phone [...]

Byline: Mike DeBonis WASHINGTON - A Republican senator who expressed doubts about former president Donald Trump's impeachment defense team and suggested he might ultimately vote to convict him was seen [...]

Their warning that the ex-president remains a danger to democracy and could foment still more violence if not barred from running for office again does not convince his fellow Republicans. [...]

Byline: Rachel Axon and Josh Salman, USA TODAY They broke through barricades, shattered windows and seized control of the U.S. Capitol, some making death threats against members of Congress hiding [...]

Byline: Bart Jansen, Nicholas Wu, Christal Hayes and Ledyard King, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - House impeachment managers wielded former President Donald Trump's words against him Wednesday, arguing that he spent [...]

Byline: David Jackson, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Former President Donald Trump denounced his lawyers' performance in the Senate impeachment trial during private conversations with allies, but his advisers said he [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin For Print Use Only. House impeachment managers continue to stitch together an unbreakable chain of events linking former President Donald Trump to the violent insurrection at the [...]

Byline: Greg Sargent For Print Use Only. News accounts keep telling us that the Democratic impeachment managers are struggling to persuade Republicans to turn on Donald Trump. But there's zero [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin For Print Use Only. I felt sick to my stomach watching the House managers' minute-by-minute presentation Wednesday of insurrectionists entering the Capitol, assaulting police officers, terrorizing lawmakers [...]

Byline: ADRIAN MORROW, Staff WASHINGTON -- Lead Rioters intent on killing thenvice-president Mike Pence and members of Congress repeatedly got within a few feet of the politicians they planned to [...]

Byline: LAWRENCE MARTIN Lead Democrats were understandably delighted with the early going of the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Their legal team shredded their opponents. Mr. Trump's lead lawyer Bruce [...]

The Supreme Court has placed strict First Amendment limits on incitement charges in court. But many legal scholars say they do not apply in impeachment trials. WASHINGTON -- When Donald [...]

Byline: Monica Hesse As rioters made their way through the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, some went looking for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. New footage of this was released at [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake Democratic House impeachment managers on Wednesday began formally laying out their case that President Donald Trump incited the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. [...]

For Print Use Only. This appeared in Thursday's Washington Post. - - - Before former president Donald Trump's second Senate impeachment trial, members of both parties wondered whether it was [...]

Byline: Colby Itkowitz WASHINGTON - The chilling, unseen footage of a riotous mob storming through the U.S. Capitol intent on killing Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, [...]

Byline: Ann E. Marimow and Amy B Wang WASHINGTON - This time, the videos came from the inside - silent, chilling, never-before-seen footage from security cameras mounted throughout the U.S. [...]

Byline: Paul Kane WASHINGTON - Sen. Bill Cassidy has been signaling for a few months that he wants to be a more independent force. After the November elections, in which [...]

Byline: Monica Hesse On Tuesday afternoon, a procession of U.S. representatives and attorneys gave their best constitutional arguments for why former president Donald Trump should or should not be tried [...]

Byline: Greg Sargent For Print Use Only. It's instructive to venture into the confines of Sean Hannity's universe, because it often showcases the propaganda being injected into the GOP base's [...]

The result largely mirrored the tally last month, when the Senate voted to kill an attempt to dismiss the trial as unconstitutional. Six Republican senators on Tuesday joined 50 Democrats [...]

Byline: Greg Sargent For Print Use Only. The trial of former president Donald Trump began with a powerful video presentation from the House impeachment managers that continually juxtaposed Trump's haranguing [...]

Byline: Max Boot For Print Use Only. Donald Trump is now on trial in the Senate for inciting a violent insurrection. But what about his collaborators? Fox 'News,' Newsmax, One [...]

Byline: John Wagner and Colby Itkowitz WASHINGTON - The second Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump opened with House managers playing a graphic video of the Jan. 6 takeover of [...]

Byline: Teri Kanefield Suppose an incumbent president up for another term decides not to honor the result of the election. Suppose he tries every means available to keep himself in [...]

Byline: Salvador Rizzo 'This is not a trial of a president, but of a private citizen. . . . This proceeding . . . violates the Constitution.' - Sen. Rand [...]

Debate will begin at 1 p.m. on Tuesday. Though the trial is expected to be fast-paced, oral arguments could stretch into next week. The second impeachment trial of former President [...]

The lengthy legal brief provided the first extended defense of former President Donald J. Trump's conduct since the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. It arrived as senators locked in [...]

To avoid having to make a judgment about Donald J. Trump's conduct in the Jan. 6 riot, Republicans have argued the proceeding is unconstitutional. The first issue that will be [...]