Donald Trump wins the Republican Iowa caucus by 97.1%, showing Republicans are united

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Donald Trump wins the Republican Iowa caucus by 97.1%, showing Republicans are united in their choice for 2020 presidential nominee






US President Donald Trump is surely going to be the Republican party flag bearer in the upcoming 2020 presidential election after smashing the very important Iowa caucuses on Monday night.
 
                     
 
While Democrats fought a high-profile battle to win the Democratic poll which resulted in a fiasco after the voting app crashed,  Republicans showed they were far more united in their choice for president as Trump got 97.09 
                           
 
Trump got 97.09% of the vote, and neither of his competitors reached the 2% mark, with his two opponents, Bill Weld and Joe Walsh getting just 1.5 and 1.4%.
 
                       
 
Donald Trump Jr. was among the Trump supporters who went into campaign mode in Des Moines, Iowa on Friday night, with his brother Eric by his side, while celebrated surgeon Ben Carson was also sent to campaign for the president.
Back in 2016, Iowa had not been a victory ground for Trump, with Ted Cruz coming out on top by 27.6% to Trump's 24.3% while Marco Rubio was a close third at 23.1%, and Ben Carson came in at 9.3%. 

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Donald Trump discharged and acquitted by the US senate who voted him 'not guilty', bringing impeachment trial to an end






US president Donald Trump has been discharged and acquitted by the US senate over the charges of obstruction of congress and abuse of power leveled against him by the House of Reps.
On Wednesday, the Republican majority senate voted against impeaching the president, bringing the impeachment trial to an end. 
 
'48 senators have pronounced Donald John Trump, president of the United States, guilty as charged. 52 senators have announced him not guilty as charged. 2/3 of the senators present not finding him guilty, the Senate judges Donald John Trump - the president of the United States - is not guilty as charged in the first article of impeachment,' Chief Justice Roberts announced after the vote.
                   
But in a remarkable move, Republican Mitt Romney, a non-fan of Trump, who has been critical of the president in the past, voted against the president in the charge of 'abuse of power'
He was the only Republican to do so in a move that stunned Capitol Hill. 

                
'The grave question the Constitution tasks senators to answer is whether the president committed an act so extreme and egregious that it rises to the level of a "high crime and misdemeanor,' Romney said ahead of the vote. 'Yes, he did.'

He voted to acquit on the obstruction of Congress charge.  

Romney, a deeply-religious Mormon, said his faith as the reason behind his decision.
‘The allegations made in the articles of impeachment are very serious. As a senator juror, I swore an oath before god to exercise impartial justice. I am profoundly religious. My faith is at the heart of who I am. I take an oath before god as enormously consequential.

 I knew from the outset that being tasked with judging the president, the leader of my own party would be the most difficult decision I have ever faced,’ he said in his remarks on the Senate floor.

Romney said he was convinced President Trump abused his power as because it involved Joe and Hunter Biden, Trump’s political rivals.

‘There's no question in my mind that were there names not Biden the president would never have done what he did,’ Romney said. 
Romney acknowledged in a pre-taped interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace that aired just immediately after he voted against the president, that he could lose his next election campaign for not supporting Trump and that his life in Washington D.C. was about to get 'lonely.' 

‘It's going to get very lonely. The consequences are significant. They are enough that it made it very difficult process for me. There's not been a morning since this process began that I slept beyond 4:00 a.m.,’ he said. 

‘Well, a friend of mine once said that the worst thing that ever happened to them politically had already happened. The worst thing that already happened me politically was losing the presidency in 2012. I have broad enough shoulders to be able to weather personal changes in my career, political or otherwise. What I don't have is the capacity to ignore my conscience,’ he added.

Wallace pointed out to him: 'You realize this is war. Donald Trump will never forgive you for this.'

‘I know in my heart that I'm doing what's right,' Romney responded. 'I understand there's going to be enormous consequence. I don't have a choice in that regard. 

That's why I haven't been anxious to be in the position I'm in. When I heard there was going to be an impeachment investigation, as I heard the evidence coming forward, I dreaded the responsibility I have. But I was not willing to abdicate the responsibility given to me by the constitution, nor to ignore my conscience out of personal and political significance considerations. I had to follow my conscience.'

‘This is the most difficult decision I've ever made in my life. There's been nothing that compares to this,’ he added.

The impeachment process initiated by House speaker Nancy Pelosi started on the 24th of September after a whistle blower complaint alleged that Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine in exchange for launching investigations into his political rival, Joe Biden.

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Florida congressman files Ethics complaint against Nancy Pelosi for tearing Trump's speech






Florida congressman, Matt Gaetz has filed an ethics complaint against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for tearing up her own copy of President Trump's speech during the State of the Union address on Tuesday, saying she broke the law.
                              
                    
 
Pelosi, after sitting down for over an hour listening to Trump's state of the union address, stood up after Trump ended his speech and in the front of cameras and the watching congress, tore her own copy of Trump's speech.
 
Mr. Gaetz, one of Mr. Trump’s allies, termed Mrs. Pelosi’s gesture of tearing the speech as “beneath the dignity of the House, and a potential violation of law (18 USC 2071)” and urged her to resign.
 
                   
               
 
Mr. Gaetz while posting on Twitter said he has sent the letter to the two top lawmakers on the House ethics committee, saying her violation of the law could give her up to 3 years imprisonment . 
 
According to the law 18 USC 2071, violation of the law promises, 'up to three years in prison for “whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys … any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office.”

See the documents below.
 
            


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Post Impeachment drama: Trump and Nancy Pelosi attack each other over 'faith, prayers and dignity'






US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump have started a new phase of post impeachment drama after Trump this week survived the Democrats attempt to impeach him.
 
Trump, at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, which both Trump and Pelosi attended, thanked "courageous Republican politicians who had the wisdom, fortitude and strength to do what everyone knows was right."
 
He then made implicit references to Nancy Pelosi and Mitt Romney (the only Republican Senator who voted against Trump) as people who use their faith as an excuse to do wrong'
"I don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong nor do I like people who say, 'I pray for you,' when they know that's not so. So many people have been hurt and we can't let that go on," Trump said.
"We have allies, we have enemies, sometimes the allies are enemies but we just don't know it. But we're changing all that," Trump later remarked.
 
Later in the White House on Thursday, while celebrating his acquittal from impeachment allegations by the US Senate, Trump slammed the impeachment process as something that should never happen to another president, saying Nancy Pelosi 'never prayed for him', contrary to her suggestions that she did. He suggested Pelosi had no dignity for tearing up his speech at the State of the Union address while apologizing to his family for letting them pass through the impeachment process.
 


Pelosi in response, said she didn't need a lesson on dignity from Trump, adding that she tore Trump's speech because it was filled with lies, and that she still prayed for the president.

Later Thursday after the breakfast, Pelosi adressed Trump's remark about faith as justification for doing something wrong "completely inappropriate" and "particularly without class.", saying the president's remarks at a faith gathering was completely unwarranted.
"This morning the President said when people use faith as an excuse to do ... bad things ... was just so completely inappropriate, especially at a prayer breakfast," Pelosi said at her weekly news conference.
"I don't know what the President understands about prayer or people who do pray, but we do pray for the United States of America," she said. "I pray hard for him because he's so off the track of the Constitution, our values, our country."
"He really needs our prayers, so he can say whatever he wants ... but I do pray for him and I do so sincerely and without anguish," Pelosi added.
"To go into the stock market and raising up (the newspaper) and mischaracterizing other peoples' motivation, he's talking about things he knows little about -- faith and prayer," she said.
 
The back and forth between the number one and number three person in the US, brings to the forefront the great polarisation and partisanship that the impeachment drama has brought to the American people as they head to the polls in November.