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Your support makes all the difference.Support for Donald Trump’s impeachment is soaring according to the polls as it emerges the president recently attempted to pressure Australia’s prime minister Scott Morrison and other foreign leaders into assisting his attorney-general William Barr with an investigation into the origins of Robert Mueller’s Russian election hacking probe.
New details continue to surface about Mr Trump’s now-infamous call with Ukrainian president Volodymr Zelensky of 25 July, the basis for the House Democrats’ inquiry announced last week, including the revelation that secretary of state Mike Pompeo took part in the offending conversation.
The president’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, has meanwhile been subpoenaed by the opposition for text messages, phone records and other communications related to the botched attempt to corner the Eastern European nation into pursuing a corruption allegation involving leading 2020 Democrat Joe Biden but laughed off the matter on Fox News: “They seem to forget that I’m a lawyer.”
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Perhaps not the first person to do this, reports indicate that the president of Iran refused to leave his hotel room for a meeting with Donald Trump at the UN General Assembly.
Some may call it "bizarre", and others may call it "inspiring".
Either way, the president has released an animated film to support his 2020 re-election bid. Take a look!
(For the record, we went with "bizarre")
Less than a month after his firing, John Bolton is back, baby!
And, the war hawk has a lot of criticism for his former boss now that he is on the outside:
Here is the president's adult son attacking Democrats for a meeting that Republicans said could have included a personal plea by Bill Clinton to former attorney general Loretta Lynch to drop the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails.
The odd part about him highlighting this is that Donald Trump Jr's father, the president, literally asked people to stop investigations into himself.
And here's the campaign manager for the Trump 2020 campaign using gifs to celebrate the fundraising returns from the quarter:
The below tweet has been getting a lot of traction among right-wing politicians and commentators — including, obviously, the president — but we should note a couple things about it.
The map shows where Mr Trump won in 2016, but is far from representative of where people live in the country. The US has concentrations in, generally, the blue parts of that map. Some proof: Mr Trump lost the popular vote by millions.
Also: The map from Nixon's most recent win before he faced impeachment was much redder. He was definitely going to be impeached had he not resigned.
Some analysis of how we got her with the impeachment probe, by our own Kim Sengupta:
Here are some of the latest fundraising numbers, this time from Kamala Harris:
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