- PoliticsUSA TODAY
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.
- PoliticsUSA TODAY
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.
- PoliticsBusiness Insider
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.
- PoliticsBusiness Insider
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.
- PoliticsThe Week
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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'My Pillow Guy' Still Hoping Trump Could Mobilize The Military To Stay In Power
Devoted Donald Trump supporter My Pillow CEO and TV pitchman Michael Lindellindicated in a manic interview Saturday that he's still hoping the presidentmay use the military to stay in power.
- CelebrityINSIDER
How Princess Eugenie's royal baby will shift the line of succession
The baby will be 11th in line to the throne, subsequently pushing back several other royals, including two of the Queen's children.
