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Trump to surrender at Georgia jail on charges to overturn 2020 election

Donald Trump is set to surrender Thursday to authorities in Georgia on charges that he schemed to overturn the 2020 election in that state, a booking process expected to yield a historic first: a mug shot of a former American president. Trump's arrival follows a presidential debate featuring his leading rivals for the 2024 Republican nomination, a contest in which he remains the leading candidate despite accelerating legal troubles. His presence in the state, though likely brief, is expected to swipe the spotlight at least temporarily from his opponents in the aftermath of a debate in which other candidates sought to seize on Trump's absence to elevate their own presidential prospects. The Fulton County prosecution is the fourth criminal case against Trump since March, when he became the first former president in U.S. history to be indicted. Since then, he's faced federal charges in Florida and Washington and, this month, was indicted in Atlanta with 18 others including his ex-chief

You'll make US less safe: Haley to Ramaswamy at Republican Party's debate

Indian-American US presidential aspirants Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy clashed during the Republican Party's maiden presidential primary debate over foreign policy issues, with the former South Carolina Governor criticising her rival and entrepreneur for lacking foreign policy experience and supporting Russia. Haley, 51, and Ramaswamy, 38, have been clashing over foreign policy issues over the past few days on social media. During the debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Wednesday, Haley accused Ramaswamy of supporting America's foreign adversaries and abandoning its friends after he said he would not support Ukraine in the war against Russia. Form Standing next to him, Haley, the former US Ambassador to the UN, slammed her fellow Indian-American that he is taking the side of a murderer Russian president and said that the US would be unsafe under his presidency. He wants to hand Ukraine to Russia, he wants to let China eat Taiwan, he wants to go and stop funding Israel, Haley sai

The Trump saga: Indictment, RICO law & future of presidential campaign

Donald Trump faces 91 charges against him. However, he may still be able to run for President in the next US elections

Trump and his allies double down on election lies after indictment

A federal indictment and one in Georgia charging Donald Trump with lying about the 2020 election to overturn President Joe Biden's win have done nothing to slow the geyser of election falsehoods flowing from the former president and his supporters. Just two days after the Georgia indictment, one of Trump's most enthusiastic backers took the stage at a conference in Missouri to again spread election misinformation. Mike Lindell, the owner of MyPillow who is a vocal promoter of the myth that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, kicked off an event on purported election crimes with a video about fraud. It included footage from November 2020 that purported to show a Fulton County, Georgia, election worker pulling a briefcase of ballots from under a desk to surreptitiously add them to the tally. As evidence has since shown, the worker, Ruby Freeman, was simply doing her job pulling out a standard government container full of real ballots that had to be counted. Three different ...

Donald Trump's fourth indictment: 5 ways in which Georgia is different

Prosecutors began their investigation soon after news broke that Trump had called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Jan. 2, 2021

Trump could be barred from holding office if FBI finds classified documents

The reports coming in indicate that Donald Trump had taken some classified documents with him. if any such documents are found at his home, he would be barred from holding any office for life

Enough evidence uncovered to indict Trump: Jan 6 violence panelists

Members of the House committee investigating the Capitol riot said they have uncovered enough evidence for the Justice Department to consider an unprecedented criminal indictment against Donald Trump

Best of BS Opinion: Fragile democracy, IBC set to resume, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Fragile democracy

Sustaining it is a high-maintenance exercise

Donald Trump looks to reassert himself after impeachment acquittal

Donald Trump took in the win at Mar-a-Lago, surrounded by friends and family

US Senate acquits Trump over Capitol violence following impeachment trial

Senate voted 57-43 to convict the former prez but fell 10 votes short of the 67 needed for conviction

Impeachment trial: Donald Trump's defense wraps up case in three hours

The defense attorneys for Donald Trump have wrapped up their presentation in the former president's impeachment trial. Lawyers argued for three hours Friday that Trump didn't incite the January 6 rally crowd to riot at the US Capitol and that his words were merely figures of speech. They say the case against Trump was a political witch-hunt by Democrats and was not valid because he is no longer in office. Their truncated defense barely used the full time allotted, 16 hours over two days. Many senators minds appear already made up. Trump is accused of incitement of insurrection in the mob siege at the Capitol. Five people died. Senators will next be able to ask the lawyers questions when the trial resumes. The strategy from Donald Trump's lawyers is to concede that violence at the US Capitol on January 6 was every bit as traumatic, unacceptable and illegal as Democrats say. But his team disputes that Trump had anything to do with it. The goal is to blunt the impact of the House ...

Donald Trump did not cause Jan 6 riots at Capitol, his lawyers tell Senate

There is a complete lack of evidence on the article of impeachment against Donald Trump, his lawyers told the United States Senate on Friday

Donald Trump's lawyers decry impeachment case as political vengeance

Lawyers for Trump opened his impeachment defense Friday by strenuously denying he played any role in inciting the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol

Rioters acted on Trump's 'orders', Democrats say in impeachment trial

Videos of rioters, some posted to social medial by themselves, talked about how they were doing it all for Trump

Senate votes to proceed with Donald Trump's second impeachment trial

The 56-to-44 vote was the second indication in two weeks that Trump was all but certain to be acquitted

US President Biden says he won't watch Trump's impeachment proceedings

US President Joe Biden on Tuesday told reporters in the Oval Office that he has no plans to watch former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial

Trump unhappy with attorney's opening statement during impeachment trial

Former President Donald Trump is reportedly unhappy with his defense attorney Bruce Castor's opening argument on the Senate floor this afternoon, according to two people familiar with his reaction

Six Republican Senators also say Trump's impeachment trial constitutional

Six Republican Senators joined their Democratic colleagues in the United States Senate on Tuesday to vote that the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump is constitutional

Senate agrees to hear Trump impeachment case, rejecting GOP arguments

Trump is the first president to face impeachment charges after leaving office and the first to be twice impeached