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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump has been accused of 26 further counts of sexual misconduct in a forthcoming new book, All the President's Women by Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy, which recounts him hiding behind a tapestry in order to allegedly molest a woman at his resort at Mar-a-Lago in Florida in one instance.
The president's refusal to co-operate with the impeachment inquiry into his dealings with Ukraine - which he accidentally branded a “Wirch Hunt” on Twitter – has prompted House speaker Nancy Pelosi to hit back, reminding the president: “You are not above the law. You will be held accountable.”
The White House issued an eight-page letter to House Democrats late on Tuesday denouncing its investigation into whistleblower allegations that Mr Trump attempted to extort dirt on a domestic political rival from a foreign power as “constitutionally invalid”, after blocking US ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland from appearing on Capitol Hill earlier in the day to give his version of events.
Later on during the day on Wednesday, Mr Trump defended the wife of a US diplomat who killed a British teenager, saying that it can be difficult for Americans to get used to driving on the left side of the road.
Mr Trump also downplayed the historical significance of the Kurdish forces currently being bombed by Turkey in Syria, saying that they did not help the United States during the Second World War.
He also continued to fight back against impeachment concerns, saying that Democrats leading the investigation into him and his actions should themselves be impeached.
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Mr Trump says that Boris Johnson "will do a lot" for the US, during his White House event just now.
"We've taken a number of Isis fighters we did not want getting out [of Kurdish run jails]."
"They should be going back to Europe. Europe could have taken them but they did not want them."
"Biden's son got thrown out of the navy - I don't want to say why."
Facebook has rejected a request from former vice president Joe Biden to remove an advertisement posted by Donald Trump's 2020 campaign, which questions his role in the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor.
The decision, according to a letter from the company, says the decision to leave the advertisement alone is "grounded in Facebook's fundamental belief in free expression, respect for the democratic process, and belief that in mature democracies with a free press, political speech is already arguably the most scrutinized speech there is."
A new poll out Wednesday morning claims that half of all Americans support impeaching Donald Trump, and removing him from office.
The poll, by Politico-Morning Consult, pegs support for the contentious move at 50 per cent. Just 43 per cent, meanwhile, oppose the measure.
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