Trump Refused To Call Off The Rioters – New Details About Trump-McCarthy Shouting Match Show

By Chris Udochukwu Washington (Precise Post) – In an expletive-laced phone call with House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy while the Capitol was under attack, then-President Donald Trump said the rioters cared more about the election results than McCarthy did. “Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are,” Trump said, according to lawmakers who were briefed on the call afterward by McCarthy. McCarthy insisted that the rioters were Trump’s supporters and begged Trump to call them off.Trump’s comment set off what Republican lawmakers familiar with the call described as a shouting match between the two men. A furious McCarthy told the then-President the rioters were breaking into his office through the windows, and asked Trump, “Who the f–k do you think you are talking to?” according to a Republican lawmaker familiar with the call. The newly revealed details of the call, described to CNN by multiple Republicans briefed on it, provide critical insight into the President’s state of mind as rioters were overrunning the Capitol. The existence of the call and some of its …

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Majority Of Americans Say Trump Should Be Convicted, Barred From Holding Federal Office In Impeachment Trial: POLL

….As Senate is set to begin Trump’s second impeachment trial on Tuesday. Abuja (Precise Post) – Donald Trump will be the first president to undergo an impeachment trial after leaving office, but opponents of the impeachment say a trial may be unconstitutional. With his impeachment trial set to begin this week, a narrow majority of Americans say they support the Senate convicting former President Donald Trump and barring him from holding federal office again, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll released Sunday. Compared to public attitudes in the early days of his first impeachment trial, support for the Senate convicting Trump is higher now. In an ABC News/Washington Post poll published in late January 2020, when the first trial was ongoing but before senators had voted, 47% of Americans said the Senate should vote to remove Trump from office and 49% said he should not be removed. But in this latest poll, 56% of Americans say Trump should be convicted and barred from holding office again, and 43% say he should not be. The new poll was conducted by …

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Unbelievable!Trump’s Entire Legal Team Quits Week Before Impeachment Trial -Sources

Washington (Precise Post) – Former American President Donald Trump’s entire legal team, led by Butch Bowers, has walked away. All five of the impeachment lawyers who were expected to represent former President Donald Trump have called it quits, sources told ABC News. The team, led by South Carolina lawyer Butch Bowers, resigned in part because of disagreements over how to mount Trump’s defense, the sources said. The lawyers had planned to argue the constitutionality of holding a trial given Trump is now a former president. The disagreements over strategy varied, sources told ABC News, but Trump wanted his team to argue there was election fraud, while the lawyers and some top advisers to the former president wanted the focus to remain on the constitutionality of a trial with the president no longer in office. A source close to the former president described the change as a “mutual decision” between the parties. Trump was impeached by the House on Jan. 13 on a single article for “incitement of insurrection” following the violent siege at the U.S. Capitol that left one police …

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McCarthy Plans To Visit Trump In Florida, Showing Where He Stands In Post-Trump Republican Party

By our Reporter Washington (Precise Post) – Kevin McCarthy of the Republican party who is also House Minority Leader had an important decision to make — stick with former President Donald Trump and his loyalists in the Freedom Caucus, or side with more establishment House Republicans who want to take the party back. The answer became clear when instead of calling Trump, as he often did when Trump was president, he is now set to visit with Trump in Florida on Thursday. The meeting was initiated by McCarthy, a person familiar with the meeting said, and is part of an effort to get back into the good graces of the former president. McCarthy was in Florida on Wednesday, where he was fundraising, as the House is out this week. The news of the meeting was first reported by Punchbowl News. Despite political pressure from some in the GOP that the party must move on from Trump, McCarthy is eyeing what will win him back the House and possibly catapult him to the speakership. Sources told CNN he is eager to …

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Write Your Stories’ of Capitol Riot – Pelosi Asks Democrats

By Ogechi Okorie Abuja (Precise Post) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) encouraged her Democratic colleagues to “write their story of January 6,” in a letter sent Wednesday. In the letter, Pelosi makes note of the multiple historic events that have taken place this month, including the second House impeachment of former President Trump and President Biden’s inauguration, each one week apart. “Today also marks three weeks since the insurrection against the U.S. Capitol and against our Democracy,” Pelosi wrote. “I urge all Members to take advantage of this time to write your story of January 6. I also hope you have taken advantage of the trauma and resilience resources provided by the Office of Employee Assistance, and I encourage you to do so if you have not. Members have told me that they have found these resources to be beneficial.” The violent Capitol riot resulted in five deaths, including that of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick. Trump’s alleged role in inciting the violence led to him becoming the first U.S. president to be impeached twice. His Senate impeachment trial …

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Gov Sule Directs Officials to Adopt New Strategy in Fertilizer Distribution, Flags Off Dry Season Fertiliser Sales

By Chris Udochukwu Lafia (Precise Post) – Nasarawa State Governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule, has flagged off the 2020/21 dry season distribution of fertilizer to farmers, urging officials handling the distribution to employ new strategies with a view to cutting off middlemen. Engineer Sule gave the directive while launching the sales of fertilizer and other farming inputs to farmers in the state, at a ceremony in Lafia, on Tuesday. The Governor stated that the launching of the fertilizer distribution and other farming inputs for farmers, demonstrated the commitment of his administration to ensure effective distribution process in the delivery of inputs to farmers in the state, as well as ensure year round farming. While lamenting that the process of fertilizer distribution was hijacked last year, with the farmers accessing the commodity from third parties, he called on officials saddled with the responsibility of distributing the fertilizer, to ensure that only genuine farmers benefit. He emphasized that his administration wants to make sure that whatever is there to be distributed, should go directly to the end users, with nobody interfering with the …

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Biden Won’t Lift COVID-19 Travel Ban – Aide Says

By Ogechi Okorie Washington (Precise Post) – The Spokesman of the US President-elect Joe Biden has quickly dismissed Donald Trump’s announcement Monday that a Covid-19 ban on travelers arriving from much of Europe and Brazil would be lifted, underlining the fractious transition of power. “On the advice of our medical team, the Administration does not intend to lift these restrictions on 1/26,” tweeted Jen Psaki, Biden’s press secretary. “In fact, we plan to strengthen public health measures around international travel in order to further mitigate the spread of COVID-19.” “With the pandemic worsening, and more contagious variants emerging around the world, this is not the time to be lifting restrictions on international travel,” she added. Just minutes prior to Psaki’s tweet, President Trump said he would lift the travel ban on Europe and Brazil, although travel bans for China and Iran would remain in place. “This action is the best way to continue protecting Americans from COVID-19 while enabling travel to resume safely,” he said in a statement released by the White House. Trump had announced an initial ban on …

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Incitement: Universities, Colleges Rescind Honorary Degrees Award to Trump

By Chris Udochukwu Washington (Precise Post) – The last has not been heard about the incitement of the insurrection on the United States Capitol, as several colleges have rescinded the honorary degrees they awarded to President Donald Trump. Some schools including the Middlebury College also took away degrees awarded to Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, while other schools are facing pressure to do the same, a sign of how institutions and businesses are responding to the January 6 Washington riot that led to the president’s impeachment. According to Forbes, the board of trustees at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania already voted to rescind the honorary degree it awarded to Trump in 1988. Hours later, the board of trustees for Wagner University in New York followed suit, voting to strip Trump of the honorary degree it awarded the president in 2004. University of Pennsylvania alumni are pressuring the school to strip Trump of his bachelor’s degree, which the president earned in 1968, by threatening to withhold donations, though it is much more difficult for a college to revoke an earned degree. Other …

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Impeachment: Trump Blames Lawyer – Giuliani, Orders Stoppage of Legal Fee

By Ogechi OkorieWashington (Precise Post) – Presidentt Donald Trump has blamed his lawyer, Rude Giuliani for his second impeachment on Wednesday, according to CNN The President has also told people to stop paying for the lawyer’s legal fees, according to the news network quoting a source. CNN reports that though Trump’s aides were not clear if the President was serious about his instructions given he’s lashing out at nearly everyone after the events of his second impeachment. Trump, who is US 45th President, became the first among them all to be impeached twice when the House of Representatives confirmed his impeachment on Wednesday, a week after he was accused of inciting his supporters to launch a deadly attack on US Capitol. Trump was impeached by the House on a single charge of incitement of insurrection. The attack was said to be the outgoing President’s push to stop the certification of Joe Biden by the Congress. And CNN reports that Trump has been blaming his longtime personal lawyer and many others for the predicament he now finds himself in. The lawyer, …

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Pelosi in Same Dress Code She Did During Trump’s First Impeachment 

By Ogechi Okorie Abuja (Precise Post) – Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) appeared with the same dress code she appeared in when the House voted to impeach President Trump in December 2019 for the chamber’s second push to impeach the president on Wednesday. MSNBC and other news outlets noted earlier Wednesday ahead of the scheduled floor debate that Pelosi appeared to be wearing the same black dress and gold necklace she wore in December 2019, when the House passed two articles of impeachment accusing Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Those charges related to the president’s efforts to pressure the Ukrainian government to open an investigation into then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Trump now faces an article of impeachment accusing him of inciting last week’s deadly pro-Trump riot on the Capitol. Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff, Drew Hammill, confirmed to The Hill that the Speaker was wearing the same outfit Wednesday. Pelosi as of the early afternoon Wednesday did not yet appear to be wearing the golden mace brooch she wore as she gaveled out the vote to …

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Incitement of Insurrection: House Impeaches Trump With 232 to 197 Votes

Washington (Precise Post) – The House voted Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time in a swift and bipartisan condemnation of the President’s role inciting last week’s riot at the US Capitol. The House voted 232 to 197 to impeach Trump exactly one week after rioters forced lawmakers to flee from the very chamber in which they cast ballots in the fourth presidential impeachment in US history — and the first time a President has been impeached twice. Ten Republicans, including the House’s No. 3 Republican, Liz Cheney of Wyoming, joined with Democrats to impeach Trump for “incitement of insurrection.” While the vote won’t force Trump from office — the Senate trial isn’t expected to begin until after President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in next week — the vote was a visceral response from lawmakers in both parties furious at Trump after a deadly pro-Trump mob overran Capitol Police, ransacked the US Capitol and put the lives of Vice President Mike Pence and lawmakers in danger last week. “We know that the President of the United States …

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Revealed! Why Trump Declared State of Emergency in Washington

By Ogechi Okorie Washington (Precise Post) – Ahead of the January 20th swearing-in of Joe Biden, United States (U.S.) President Donald Trump has declared a state of emergency in Washington D.C.. The declaration came on the heels of a revelation by the police of three plots to attack the Capitol Building ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration, including the “largest armed protest in American history”. It also came as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) alerted its agents to possible uprisings at capitols in 50 states ahead of Inauguration Day, particularly if Trump is removed from office before Biden enters the White House. Trump’s declaration allows the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate with local authorities as Democrats had been furiously demanding. On Monday night, the new chiefs of Capitol Police told House Democrats they were looking into three separate plans, including one described as “the largest armed protest ever to take place on American soil”. The protesters plan to involve armed rioters encircling the Capitol and blocking Democrats from entering – killing them if necessary …

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My Speech on Capitol Riots Was Totally Appropriate – Trump Insists

By Francis Etuko Abuja (Precise Post) – United States President Donald Trump has said his speech before last week’s deadly Capitol riot, when he urged his supporters to march on Congress, was “totally appropriate”. Mr Trump dismissed as “ridiculous” efforts by Democrats in Congress to impeach him for inciting insurrection. He leaves office on 20 January, when President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in. The House of Representatives is expected to vote on an article of impeachment on Wednesday. “I think it’s [the impeachment procedure] causing tremendous danger to our country and it’s causing tremendous anger. I want no violence,” Mr Trump said. He was speaking as he left the White House for a visit to Texas to inspect a section of the border wall with Mexico. What did Mr Trump say in his speech?During his speech at the rally in Washington on 6 January, Mr Trump repeated his unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud during the 3 November presidential election and urged his supporters to march on Congress. “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer …

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From 1st to 3rd World: The USA Trump Would Bequeath to Biden

By Magnus Onyibe,  When Donald J Trump’s tumultuous presidency ends on January 20, 2021, he would be handing over to president-elect, Joseph R Biden, a United States of America (USA), that has degenerated from first to third world. That is remarkable because the trend has always been for a country to move from third to first world as reflected by the case of Singapore, the island country, which leaped from first to the third world as documented in a book titled “ From Third To First World: The Story of Singapore, written by Lee Kuan Yew, that country’s most famous leader under whose watch the country experienced the phenomenal leap forward. There is a legion of reasons that the USA which Trump will be handing over to Biden would be a third world. And it is simply because after about four (4) years of Trump’s presidency, the USA that was the acclaimed leader of the democratic world; and the foremost defender of political and social liberalism; the most advanced society economically, which is a prime position that it has proudly …

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Why Buhari May Not Appear Before Reps

…APC Governors, Lawan, Gbajabiamila, Others Met Tuesday Night By Ogechi Okorie Abuja (Precise Post) – President Muhammadu Buhari may after all not appear before the House of Representatives on Thursday as earlier scheduled. It will be recalled that the House had on December 1 reached a resolution via a motion to invite the President to the national assembly. The invitation followed the killing of over 43 rice farmers in Zarbamari village, Borno State penultimate Saturday. The Presidency had last week agreed that the President will honor the invitation. On Monday, the main opposition People’s Democratic Party PDP’s caucus led by Hon. Kingsley Chinda from Rivers State in a statement asked Nigerians to prevail on their representatives to commence impeachment processes against the president, saying he had failed on his constitutional obligations to protect lives and property. But events took a dramatic twist Tuesday night with series of meetings of different camps of lawmakers and some governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC at the national assembly. Sources told Vanguard that PDP caucus met somewhere at the second floor of …

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Balarabe Musa Will Be Missed for His Consistent Struggle to Social and Economic Change – Tinubu

By Ogechi Okorie Ikeja (Precise Post) – Former Lagos State Governor and acclaimed national leader of the All Progressives Congrsss, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu has said that Alhaji Balarabe Musa will be missed by the entire country particularly the Talakawas for his consistent struggle and commitment to social and economic change. Tinubu who disclosed this in a statement released via his twitter handle on Wednesday while commiserating with Balarabe Musa’s immediate and extended family. Precise Post recalld that Alhaji Balarabe Musa died on Wednesday. According to Tinubu, Balarabe Musa was a statesman and principled progressive politician. He was very uncompromising. He stood unwaveringly by his convictions even at the height of his impeachment by the NPN controlled State Assembly in 1981. Tinubu also mourned with the people and government of Kaduna State. I mourn with the country for we have all lost a fine progressive. The former Lagos State governor prayed Almighty Allah to grant him Aljanna Fridaus. Amin.

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