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/ November 6, 2019

Trump impeachment: Small step on a very long way

This pre-impeachment inquiry certainly plays a significant role in the 2020 presidential election, even the impeachment against Mr. Trump seems to be unrealistic at the moment. The newest move taken by the Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives approving rules for the next, more public stage in the inquiry pushed by the Democratic House members into US president Donald Trump's attempt to have Ukraine investigate a domestic political rival was a further step in their effort to impeach Mr. Trump. For the Democratic Party it was very important and for the impeachment process itself it was very remarkable. But it was still only a very small step on the very long way the Democrats want and have to go. US President Donald Trump. Photo: BBC This step doesn't mean that the US House of Representatives have decided to officially start the impeachment process against Mr. Trump. Therefore, it doesn't pose more and bigger threats for his presidency. But it doesn't mean nothing to him, either because it could become riskier for him in the coming time. Until now, Mr. Trump and the Republican Party have been always complaining that the Democrats in the House of Representatives did not have had any legal ground to carry out the process of collecting evidence and pre-impeachment inquiry against Mr. Trump as well as criticizing the Democrats for their closed-doors hearings. With the newest approval of the House of Representatives, the Democrats can now neutralize the Republicans’ and Mr. Trump's complains and critics. The Democrats consider it the legalization of the pre-impeachment inquiry against Mr. Trump and encouragement to firmly advance on this way. The vote of the House of Representatives allows for public hearings in the US Congress and will move the related hearings from behind closed doors to the public. The more the public knows about the details of the inquiry, the more difficult it will be for Mr. Trump to refuse not to …

/ February 6, 2020

Trump impeachment: Game over

This impeachment has made America even more polarized, politically, socially and morally. The end of the impeachment procedure against US President Donald Trump is nearing after the Senate, by voting 51-49, denied subpoena of witnesses. Soon, maybe very soon, Trump would be acquitted by the Senate and this would mean this game will be over for the Democrats. Trump will present himself as the victor and certainly take as much advantage as possible from it in his re-election campaign. The third impeachment in the US history will end like the previous two: No president was impeached. Obviously, the Democrats have lost this game, maybe not totally but very severely. They now can only hope that American voters, especially those in the so-called "swing states", would decide to deselect Trump in the upcoming presidential election. In this aspect, this game might still not be over yet for both the Democrats and Trump. …

/ February 26, 2019

Trump lands in Vietnam for second summit with N.Korea’s Kim

HANOI, Feb 26 - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump both arrived in Vietnam on Tuesday, the eve of their second summit at which they will tackle how to implement a North Korean pledge to give up its nuclear weapons. Trump flew into the capital Hanoi on Air Force One, touching down just before 9 p.m. (1400 GMT). Kim arrived by train early in the day after a three-day, 3,000 km (1,850 mile) journey from his capital, Pyongyang, through China. He completed the last stretch from a border station to Hanoi by car. The two leaders, who seemed to strike up a surprisingly warm relationship at their first summit in Singapore last June, will meet for a brief one-on-one conversation on Wednesday evening, followed by a dinner, at which they will each be accompanied by two guests and interpreters, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters. They will meet again on Thursday, she said. Their talks come eight months after the historic summit in Singapore, the first between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader. While the first meeting was all about breaking the ice after decades of war and bitter animosity between their countries, this time there will be pressure on both to move beyond the vaguely worded commitment they made in Singapore to work toward the complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula. Trump's critics at home have warned him against cutting a deal that would do little to curb North Korea's nuclear ambitions, urging specific, verifiable North Korean action to abandon the nuclear weapons that threaten the United States. In return, Kim would expect significant U.S. concessions such as relief from punishing sanctions and a declaration that the 1950-53 Korean War is at last formally over. Vietnamese officials were on hand to greet Kim at the station in Dong Dang town after he crossed the border from China. He got a red-carpet welcome with honour guard, military band and fluttering North Korean and …