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Trump planning to raise $2 billion for a presidential library, likely in Florida: report
After the Jan. 6 US Capitol riots, some former Trump advisors are skeptical of the president's expensive proposal.
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Running on empty: Senate Republicans ponder barring Donald Trump from seeking office again
The impeachment trial of Donald Trump isn't about removing him from the presidency – it's about preventing him from running for president again.
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Kellyanne Conway told Bill Maher that she's 'disappointed' that Trump's accomplishments have been overlooked because of the Capitol riots
Kellyanne Conway said that the Capitol insurrection "inexcusable" but insisted that the rioters did not represent most Trump supporters.
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Fact check: Trump loses several perks only if there's an impeachment conviction by Jan. 20
Posts get repercussions of a second Trump impeachment mostly correct, but revocation of perks depends on a Senate conviction before Jan. 20.
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'The rot went deep' - Senior US conservatives divided on Trump's future
Will Donald Trump be a spent political force when he is replaced on Wednesday by Joe Biden after a single term in office? The Republican party has not done well under his leadership. It has lost control of the White House, US Congress and the Senate to the Democrats.
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How 'bewildered' Trump campaign aides would reportedly discreetly escape election challenge meetings
In the immediate aftermath of President-elect Joe Biden's victory in November, the leaders of President Trump's re-election campaign told him he had about a five to 10 percent chance of picking up enough outstanding votes in Georgia and Arizona and win a legal challenge against election practices in Wisconsin, which would overturn the results, Axios' Jonathan Swan reports in part of his series on the final two months of Trump's presidency.Trump initially told his campaign aides — including campaign manager Bill Stepien, senior adviser Jason Miller, and deputy campaign manager Justin Clark — that it was worth a shot, but he was simultaneously listening to another plan presented by attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell that was steeped in conspiracy theories.The campaign team's plan might not have much going for it in the long run, but they believed, per Axios, that "a serious search for a path to 270 electoral votes through credible legal challenges" was under way. That illusion was reportedly shattered when Giuliani, Powell, "and a swelling conspiracy crew marched into the room" for a meeting.Things, unsurprisingly, did not go well, and whenever the two groups met, the conversation would begin with the campaign's legal strategies before Giuliani and Powell tok over. Swan reports that "bewildered campaign aides would look around the table at one another, silently asking what the hell was going on" before one person would "invariably shuffle out of the room." Every few minutes, another would follow until they all reconvened safely in Stepien's office down the hall. Read more at Axios.More stories from theweek.com 5 more scathing cartoons about Trump's 2nd impeachment Trump's vaccine delay is getting suspicious The pandemic windfall
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Fears of ‘inside attack’ at Biden’s inauguration, defence officials warn
A security threat within the ranks will be a big risk for president-elect Joe Biden and other VIP attendees at the inauguration, according to defence officials
