Why Trump will survive the next 10 days

Mon, 11 Jan 2021

After four years of back-to-back scandals, each more outlandish and appalling than the last, it wasn’t until US President Donald Trump encouraged thousands of his supporters to storm the US Capitol Building, threatening the lives of Congress representatives, that some lawmakers got serious about removing him from office. Days after Republican and Democratic members of Congress were forced to cower under their desks as armed, pro-Trump extremists vandalised the seat of the legislative branch, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announc...

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