DEVELOPING | US inauguration: America enters final hours of Donald Trump presidency

US President Donald Trump has granted a pardon to his disgraced former aide Steve Bannon as part of a wave of pardons and commutations during his final hours in office, White House officials told the Reuters news agency and New York Times newspaper.

Trump is expected to pardon some 100 people before Joe Biden is sworn in as the next president of the United States on January 20.

Embittered by critical comments from some top Republicans, outgoing President Donald Trump is considering a launch of a new third party, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday?

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President Donald Trump plans to pardon or commute the sentences of 100 people on his last day in the White House, CNN reported.

support of outgoing President Donald Trump, it emerged that some of those.

prosecutors took back an earlier assertion that supporters of President Donald.

Donald Trump has been selfish," vents a man who joined a group of about 3,000 Honduran migrants trying to reach the United States pic.twitter.com/uGMTUWVMZ5.

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Security measures have been ramped up around the US #Capitol in the aftermath of the violent assault by supporters of President Trump on January 6, including a large #NationalGuard presence and high, non-scalable fencing pic.twitter.com/pnMCoXsfWd

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Twitter and Facebook repeatedly mishandled Donald Trump as he pushed baseless claims, including his assertion that US presidential election he lost was rigged, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales told AFP

The two social media giants indefinitely suspended Trump after his supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6, an attack on the seat of democracy that on Wednesday led to Trump's second impeachment

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Trump's second impeachment is the most bipartisan in US history

It was the second time Trump was impeached and the most bipartisan impeachment vote in US history

Five House Democrats voted to impeach President Bill Clinton in the late 1990s, and no Democrats voted to impeach President Andrew Johnson in 1868

President Richard Nixon resigned from office before he was formally impeached

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– President Donald Trump urged Americans to be "united" and avoid

impeachment in the House of Representatives, Trump said "there is never a

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president was impeached for the second time in 13 months

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VIDEO: Trump impeached for second time

One week before Donald Trump is to leave office, a total of 232 lawmakers, including 10 Republicans, vote to impeach the defiant Republican leader for high crimes and misdemeanors on a single charge of "incitement of insurrection" pic.twitter.com/ccxyO8EGnf

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The US House of Representatives has impeached President Donald Trump for “incitement of insurrection” after a mob of his supporters stormed the United States Capitol last week

This is the first time in US history that a president has been impeached twice

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House of Representatives Impeaches President Trump a second time, 232-197

Majority of US House votes to impeach Trump

A bipartisan majority of lawmakers in the House of Representatives voted Wednesday to impeach Donald Trump seven days from the end of his term, assuring he becomes the first US president to be impeached twice

With nearly all votes counted, the number supporting impeachment on the single charge of "incitement of insurrection" for Trump's role in whipping up a violent mob surpassed 217, the majority threshold out of 433 current House members

24 – Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors

US House begins vote to impeach Trump for second time

The US House of Representatives began its momentous vote Wednesday on impeaching President Donald Trump for a second time, on charges of "incitement of insurrection

"After hours of intense debate, a bipartisan majority of members is expected to impeach the president, who urged supporters last week to march on the US Capitol and "fight like hell," actions that Democrats say incited a mob to stage a violent and deadly uprising

Shortly before the vote began, number two House Democrat Steny Hoyer urged lawmakers to "reject sedition, tyranny and insurrection" and vote to impeach Trump "for America, for our constitution, for democracy, for history

Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell indicated Wednesday he has not decided on President Donald Trump's impeachment, not ruling out voting to remove him

@Jim_Jordan reads statement from President Trump during Impeachment Debate

President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged calm and said he opposed any violence among supporters as Congress debated his impeachment for inciting insurrection

During debate on Impeachment of President Trump, @reprichmond concludes his final House floor speech: "Simply put, we told you so

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday demanded the impeachment of Donald Trump in the final week of his presidency, calling him a "clear and present danger" to America for inciting an "armed rebellion" at the US Capitol

He is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love," the most powerful Democrat in Congress told the House chamber during debate over whether to impeach Trump for an unprecedented second time, for "incitement of insurrection."

@Jim_Jordan: "Democrats are going to impeach the president for a second time one week, one week before he leaves office

says President Donald Trump’s impeachment

impeached him once and now its impeachment round two

24 – Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors

EXPLAINER | Impeachment of a US president and how it

Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming the first US president to have been impeached twice, with the House of Representatives beginning a debate Wednesday on accusations he incited an insurrection at the US Capitol last week

No president has been ousted from office by impeachment, but even the threat can bring one down - Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 to avoid certain removal in the Watergate scandal

Three presidents have beaten the process: the House formally impeached Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998, but in both cases they were acquitted in the Senate

Trump, of course, was the third: the House first voted to impeach him in 2019 after a political scandal over his attempt to seek dirt from Ukraine on his then-potential 2020 Democratic presidential rival Joe Biden

Trump on brink of unprecedented second impeachment

The House of Representatives was set to impeach President Donald Trump for inciting insurrection Wednesday, with several key Republicans backing the Democrat-led push to bring down the real estate tycoon in flames just a week before he leaves office

The expected majority vote, coming seven days ahead of Democrat Joe Biden's inauguration, would make Trump the first US president to have been impeached twice

Vice President Mike Pence threw Trump a lifeline on Tuesday, saying he would not invoke the 25th Amendment that allows him and the Cabinet to strip a sitting president of his powers

His insistence that his infamous speech to the crowd had been "totally appropriate" and that he bore no blame infuriated allies and opponents alike.- Republican cracks -While the House impeachment is all but assured, it had seemed highly unlikely that the Republican-controlled Senate would follow through with a trial

Other than scheduling problems, there has been no appetite among Republicans, who acquitted Trump in his first impeachment trial a year ago, to strip him of office just days before he is set to leave anyway

However, according to The New York Times, McConnell signalled privately on Tuesday that he believes Trump did commit impeachable offenses and he welcomes the impeachment

In the House, the number three Republican Liz Cheney said she would be voting to impeach, and called Trump's actions "a betrayal" of his office

This came after top House Republican Kevin McCarthy said members would not be required to toe the party line on the vote - a significant weakening of support for Trump

Four other House Republicans have now also publicly stated they will vote for impeachment