Explainer: Can President Trump pardon himself? Would the courts reject the move?

As he prepares to end a tumultuous four years as U.S. president facing potential legal jeopardy, Donald Trump has discussed the possibility of pardoning himself, according to a source familiar with the matter. But there are questions about whether a president’s broad executive clemency powers under the U.S. Constitution would permit such action. The... Read More

US House of Reps Impeached Trump for a Historic Second Time

The United States House of Representatives on Wednesday impeached President Trump for inciting a violent insurrection against the United States government, as 10 members of the president’s party joined Democrats to charge him with high crimes and misdemeanors for an unprecedented second time. Reconvening under the threat of continued violence and the protection of... Read More

US House of Reps passes resolution demanding Trump removal by his cabinet

The United States House of Representatives voted to demand that Vice President Mike Pence invoke the Constitution’s 25th Amendment to remove Donald Trump from office, a largely symbolic act leading up to a vote on Wednesday to impeach the president for a second time. The House went ahead with the non-binding resolution, which passed 223-205,... Read More

President Trump says move to impeach him “causing tremendous anger”

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that the effort by Congress to impeach and convict him was “causing tremendous anger.” Answering questions from reporters for the first time since the violence at the Capitol on Wednesday, the president sidestepped questions about his culpability in the deadly riot that shook the nation’s long tradition... Read More

More backlashes as Deutsche Bank blacklists Trump over role in capitol attack

Deutsche Bank will not do business in the future with U.S. President Donald Trump or his companies in the wake of his supporters’ assault on the U.S. Capitol, the New York Times reported. Deutsche Bank is Trump’s biggest lender, with about $340 million in loans outstanding to the Trump Organization, the president’s umbrella group... Read More

Fact check: Donald Trump has not invoked the Insurrection Act to hold on to power

A screenshot of a social media post from an account with the handle @TeamTrumpNews has falsely alleged that the U.S. president has invoked a 200-year-old act to deploy the military and remain in power. The @TeamTrumpNews account, posted on the Parler social network, is written as though coming from the president himself. It said:... Read More

President Trump is likely to face criminal prosecution after leaving office

In the final days of his presidency, Donald Trump may have exposed himself to a criminal prosecution after he leaves the White House. First, he repeatedly pressured a state official to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in Georgia in the 2020 election. Then he incited a violent pro-Trump mob Wednesday to storm... Read More

Rate of Gun purchases spike in US after attack on Capitol

Caption: People line up to buy guns and ammunition at the Ready Gunner gun store on January 10, 2021, in Orem, Utah.  Ammunition and guns sales have spiked in Utah in the days since the storming of the Capitol building in Washington DC. Credit: AFP. Read More

CHURCH BUSINESS: The US election and the Triumph of God

By Oludare Mayowa The 2020 United States presidential election will go down in history as one of the most controversial in the anal of democracy in the bastion of free world. Prior to the election, the whole world was divided on which direction the election would go in view of the recalcitrant nature of... Read More

US House of Reps to impeach President Trump for inciting mob attack on Capitol

US House of Representative’s Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday that the House would move to impeach President Trump over his role in inciting a violent mob attack on the Capitol if he did not resign “immediately,” appealing to Republicans to join the push to force him from office. In a letter to members... Read More