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American politician and businessman (born 1947)
Charlie Kirk was raised in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights by parents often identified as Robert (father) and Kathryn/Kimberly (mother); reporting describes his father as an architect and poli...
The provided reporting documents that seven Republican senators voted to convict Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial in February 2021, producing a 57–43 guilty vote that nonetheless fell shor...
Yes — on multiple occasions Republican senators moved to block or limit ’s use of : a high-profile 2019 vote saw a bipartisan 59–41 rebuke with twelve Republicans joining Democrats to disapprove his ,...
voted 57–43 to convict on the single article of incitement of insurrection in his , with seven senators joining all Democrats and independents to vote "guilty"—falling ten votes short of the two‑third...
Former US presidents and prominent former officials have publicly criticized President Donald Trump on multiple fronts, focusing on competence, rhetoric, and policy impacts; the available analyses hig...
Charlie Kirk’s parents are identified as (father) and (mother); reporting consistently describes his father as an architect with ties to projects associated with Trump Tower and his mother as a mental...
Yes. The Senate acquitted former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial over the January 6 Capitol attack: the final roll call was which fell short of the two‑thirds threshold required...
Twelve Republican senators joined every Democratic senator in 2019 to pass a resolution terminating ’s on , arguing variously that the move violated the Constitution, usurped Congress’s power of the p...
Multiple public rankings and trackers of — including , , , and several news outlets — repeatedly surface a relatively small set of lawmakers at the top of the wealth lists: , , , , and are among the n...
A noticeable but limited stream of high-profile Republican officials and some conservative megadonors have publicly withheld support or publicly split with , signaling an elite-level distancing . At t...
Seven Republican senators voted to convict Donald Trump in the February 2021 Senate impeachment vote on incitement of insurrection; five Republicans earlier voted to allow the Senate to proceed with a...
In the days after the rally and ’s remarks that blamed “many sides,” lawmakers from both parties publicly reacted with unusually sharp language: Democrats demanded explicit denunciations of and called...
in his second impeachment trial in February 2021, joining all Senate Democrats and independents to produce a 57–43 "guilty" tally that fell short of the two‑thirds threshold required for conviction an...
Barack Obama won re-election in 2012 with 332 electoral votes and a narrow popular-vote majority: roughly 51.1% of the vote (about 65.9 million votes) to Mitt Romney’s roughly 47.2% (about 60.1 millio...
on March 14, 2019 voted 59–41 to terminate ’s , with a dozen Republican senators breaking from leadership to join in rebuking the president; the roll call and many outlets reported the defection as an...
Across U.S. history, Senate convictions of presidents have been effectively impossible: the Constitution requires a two‑thirds vote of Senators present to convict (67 in a full 100‑seat Senate), and e...
President Trump’s July 2020 commutation relieved Roger Stone of the 40‑month federal prison term he was about to begin but did not erase the jury’s seven felony convictions; Stone remained a convicted...
A broad but defined set of politicians — spanning former White House officials, establishment Republicans, and some sitting GOP lawmakers — have publicly opposed or criticized Donald Trump, ranging fr...
Notable public figures repeatedly named in reporting and reference works as having avoided or deferred Vietnam-era service include Donald Trump (medical deferment for bone spurs), Mitt Romney (questio...
’s parents raised him in a politically moderate, religious, and professionally stable Midwestern household that emphasized faith, civic engagement, hard work, and family — values he repeatedly credite...