Biden told reporters that he was focused on containing the Covid-19 pandemic, ensuring rapid vaccination and bolstering the economy
Lawmakers of both parties have raised the prospect of ousting Trump from office, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that if he wasn't removed, the House may move forward with a second impeachment
That's after Trump's impeachment was triggered by his July phone call with the president of Ukraine
"They have done everything possible to destroy us and by so doing very badly hurt our nation," Trump said.
Trump was acquitted largely along party lines on two articles of impeachment approved by the Democratic-led House of Representatives on Dec. 18
The finale to the trial won't mean an end to Democratic-led investigations, but it gives Trump momentum in his bid to win another four years after a tumultuous, scandal-filled first term.
Trump avoided the subject of his impeachment in the early portion of his speech, but the scars from the battle were evident with fellow Republicans giving him standing ovations
"The administration, its top people and Senate Republicans are all hiding the truth," Schumer said. The charges are extremely serious
McConnell said the two impeachment charges against Trump that he abused his power and obstructed Congress' ensuing investigation are constitutionally incoherent
Biden is among the candidates Monday in the Iowa caucuses that choose the state's Democratic nominee and mark the official start of election season
The Republican Party-controlled US Senate on Friday narrowly rejected the opposition Democrats' motion to call new witnesses and documents for the impeachment trial against US President Donald Trump
President Donald Trump plans to deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday
Democrats are unlikely to muster the two-thirds majority needed to remove Trump from office no matter what happens
The White House on Wednesday said that former national security advisor John Bolton cannot publish in its current form a book reportedly containing explosive evidence concerning President Donald Trump's impeachment trial. The National Security Council said after preliminary review of the manuscript -- a vetting process applied to any White House employees writing books -- that it contained "significant amounts of classified information." "Some of this information is at the TOP SECRET level," the NSC said in a letter to Bolton's lawyer Charles Cooper, adding that "the manuscript may not be published or otherwise disclosed without the deletion of this classified information.
The aid freeze wasn't part of a legitimate reconsideration of U.S. policy towards Ukraine, which Trump would have been free to initiate
Trump himself claimed he wants top aides to testify, but qualified that by suggesting there were "national security" concerns to allowing their testimony
Coming two days before Trump's trial opens in the Senate, the clashing arguments offered an early taste of the historic drama to play out in coming weeks
The China accord doesn't eliminate the negative impact of the trade dispute because Trump is continuing his existing tariffs covering $360 billion a year worth of Chinese goods
The pace of today's politics would have been hard to foresee even in early 1999, at the start of the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, when smartphones didn't exist.
The Senate will decide whether to convict and remove Trump from the office. Political pundits believe that the Senate is unlikely to remove Trump from the office.