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Trump looks forward to full impeachment trial in Senate, wants Bidens to testify – White House President Donald Trump does not mind the House impeaching him, setting the stage for a Senate trial, where witnesses – including the Ukrainegate whistleblower and both Bidens – would be called to testify, the White House said. “President Trump wants to have a trial in the Senate because it’s clearly the only chamber where he can expect fairness and receive due process under the Constitution,” White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a statement on Thursday. Also on rt.com Schiff brings lip-reading witnesses and angry bureaucrats into impeachment theater If Trump is impeached by the Democrat-controlled House, it ...

Pompeo demands Morales & officials ‘step aside’ from Bolivia election, vows ‘support’ for post-coup government US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has ordered officials involved in Bolivia’s last election to “step aside” in the next contest, and pledged “support” for the post-coup government empowered after the ouster of Evo Morales. Hailing Bolivia’s “political transition” as “important … to democracy in our hemisphere,” Pompeo insisted in a statement on Thursday that former President Morales and other officials who took part in October’s vote stay away from the upcoming ballot for the sake of a “free, fair and transparent election.” Those who participated in the egregious irregularities and manipulation of the vote in the flawed October 20 elec...

Boeing 737 skids off runway & lands NOSE-DOWN at Odessa airport, passengers evacuated (VIDEO) A Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 was forced into a hard landing in Odessa, Ukraine, after the aircraft’s nose landing gear broke. A video of the incident showed passengers evacuating using emergency slides. Photos of the incident, that took place around 10 pm local time on Thursday, show the plane several meters off the runway, nose down. Local media reported the aircraft made at least two approaches to the runway, and was spotted hovering over Odessa. According to unofficial sources, potential nose landing gear collapse ended out of the runway. After a missed approach aircraft circled over Odessa and skidded off the runway during second a...

Fights & arrests as 1000+ antifa-like protesters swarm Ann Coulter event at UC Berkeley (VIDEOS) Over 1000 antifa-type protesters surrounded a building on the Berkeley campus where conservative provocateur Ann Coulter was speaking, blocking ticket-holders from entering. At least 6 were arrested after a fight broke out. The mass of chanting and shouting protesters blocked dozens of students from entering the hall, forming a human chain across both entrances and verbally abusing anyone who tried to pass. Some of the abuse was reportedly physical as well, though the protest did not feature the outbreaks of mob violence that characterize some antifa appearances. Protesters have now turned away multiple event attendees from this south en...

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg enters the 2020 race, files paperwork to run for president Billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has filed the paperwork to enter the race for the White House as a Democrat. Bloomberg officially entered the 2020 competition on Thursday, according to Federal Election Commission fillings. In the days previously, the billionaire had unveiled plans to bankroll voter-registration drives in five battleground states, and launched a $100 million advertising campaign attacking President Donald Trump in four swing states. Also on rt.com Bloomberg blasted for apology & U-turn on NYC's ‘stop & frisk’ policy ahead of presidential nomination bid Bloomberg enter...

‘Mom? Can you hear me?’ Cuomo faceplants while trying to prove Trump wrong yet again CNN’s Chris Cuomo attempted to prove President Donald Trump wrong about whether a non-speakerphone call could be overheard by a bystander – by calling his mother, live on air. Cringe ensued. Cuomo called up his mom to disprove Trump’s claim that “he’s never been able to hear a phone call when it wasn’t on speakerphone from anybody,” asking her to say hello to his co-host, Dana Bash. If Cuomo was right, and Trump was wrong, Bash should have been able to hear Mom’s voice. It didn’t quite go that way. Chris Cuomo calls his mom to prove you can hear someone talking on the phone without speakerphone and it was... something."Can you just say hello? Mom? She p...

Victims of Russian rocket blast that caused radiation scare were working on weapon ‘unequalled in the world’ – Putin The nuclear scientists killed in a blast at a secret military range in northern Russia were developing a unique weapon critical for the country’s sovereignty, President Vladimir Putin said, vowing to keep improving the technology. Widows of the scientists killed after a secretive missile engine test went awry in the Arkhangelsk region in August, were invited to the Kremlin on Thursday. Putin handed them their husbands’ posthumous Orders of Courage and expressed his condolences. “They were working on a very difficult, important and critical assignment,” Putin said in his eulogy to the late scientists, said to be some of the best specia...

‘Destroy, return, get rid of S-400’? Nope, Turkey says we’ll activate Russian missiles instead Washington officials are reportedly demanding that Turkey “destroy or return” its Russian-made S-400 air defense systems to get back in the good books and rejoin the F-35 fighter program – but Ankara has no intention of complying. After a meeting between President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House last week, Erdogan noted that Trump’s attitude to resolving the F-35 standoff was “positive,” but offered no specifics. An unnamed State Department official, however, told Reuters on Thursday that ditching the S-400 is a precondition for rejoining the F-35 program. “There is room for Turkey to come back to the table,” the ...

Journalist cries troll after finding ‘Russian quotation marks’ in story about Biden’s illegitimate child A journalist called out an Arkansas paper for running a story about Hunter Biden’s illegitimate child, pointing to a “Russian quotation mark” the account had used in its tweet promoting the article. Also known as an arrow. Journalist Julia Ioffe, a Russiagate true-believer who covers foreign policy and national security topics for mainstream US publications like WaPo and The Atlantic, immediately smelled a rat when the Arkansas-Democrat Gazette tweeted an article claiming that “DNA testing has established that Hunter Biden is the father of an Arkansas baby,” with what she – a Russian speaker – called a “Russian quotation mark” next to it (») Perh...

‘Humiliation and extreme distress’: Jussie Smollett sues Chicago after faking hate crime Disgraced actor Jussie Smollett is suing the city of Chicago for malicious prosecution, saying he was subjected to “humiliation and extreme distress” after having falsely claimed to be the victim of a racist and homophobic attack. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, lawyers for the ‘Empire’ actor also said that the Chicago police department “obtained false, self-serving and unreliable statements” from the Osundairo brothers – the two men Smollett paid to help with the hoax hate crime, who claim that the entire incident had been orchestrated by the actor. Smollett’s attorneys say that investigators ignored “evidence that contradicted” the brothers’ statements and that...