Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Nkumba University Council has halted activities related to the impending impeachment of the Guild president and advised the students to follow impeachment guidelines as stipulated. The students Parliament resolved, on Monday, to impeach the guild president Byron Luswata on grounds that he was corrupt, …
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Lexington, United States | AFP | Taking the stage in a packed Kentucky arena to the strains of America’s unofficial patriotic anthem, “God Bless the USA,” Donald Trump didn’t look like a man in trouble. Harried by impeachment proceedings, yes. Beset by foreign policy worries, yes. Accused of everything from sexual …
Read More »Defiant Trump says impeachment delivers him an ‘angry majority’
Tupelo, United States | AFP | A combative US President Donald Trump told supporters in his electoral stronghold of Mississippi on Friday that a push to impeach him is driving an “angry” Republican surge ahead of 2020. “We’ve never had greater support than we have right now,” Trump claimed in front …
Read More »House to formalize Trump impeachment investigation
Washington, United States | AFP | Democrats laid out a formal roadmap for President Donald Trump’s impeachment Thursday as they accumulated more evidence to support charges that he improperly pushed Ukraine to boost his own 2020 electoral prospects. One day after a decorated army officer told Congressional investigators he witnessed Trump …
Read More »Democrats change tactics, to hold first US House formal impeachment process vote
Washington, United States | AFP | The US House of Representatives will hold its first formal vote Thursday on the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, a senior aide said, as Democrats forge ahead with a process that includes public hearings. The move marks a shift in strategy by …
Read More »Republicans storm secure impeachment deposition, delay testimony
Washington, United States | AFP | Furious about being left out of the Donald Trump impeachment process, US congressional Republicans stormed a closed-door witness deposition and refused to leave for several hours in an escalation of the showdown over the investigation of the president. More than two dozen lawmakers barged into …
Read More »Trump, Ukraine and impeachment: a primer
Washington, United States | AFP | In just three weeks, the official impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump has accumulated significant testimony and documentary evidence on allegations that he illegally pressured Ukraine to help boost his own political prospects in the United States. Democrats in the House of Representatives are building …
Read More »Trump impeachment probe claims ‘dramatic progress’
Washington, United States | AFP | The leader of the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump said Tuesday that witnesses had provided substantial support for allegations that Trump illegally tried to force Ukraine to investigate his political rival Joe Biden. While the White House and Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani refused …
Read More »Explosive testimony boosts Trump impeachment case, say Democrats
Washington, United States | AFP | US lawmakers leading an impeachment probe into Donald Trump turned their focus Tuesday to the State Department amid a torrent of explosive testimony over the president’s foreign policy that they say strengthens the case for his removal. Democrats on Capitol Hill were due to hear …
Read More »Impeachment probe overshadows US 2020 Democratic race
Washington, United States | AFP | Joe Biden faces scrutiny over Ukraine, Elizabeth Warren is surging and Bernie Sanders had a heart attack, but recent developments in the Democratic presidential battle are getting minimal attention, swamped by Washington’s impeachment obsession. Most Democratic candidates are pounding the pavement in early voting states …
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