It is the 12th day of the management of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
President Donald Trump is separating from the lawyer who intended to anchor his political trial, which began just over a week ago, resources told ABC News. The former president will no longer work with South Carolina attorney Butch Bowers and his associates, Deborah Barbier added. A source close to the former president called the replacement a “mutual resolution” between the parties. Senator Lindsey Graham, who suggested Bowers take the case, told his Republican colleagues in the Senate on January 21 that Bowers would constitute Trump. “Democrats’ efforts to accuse a president who has already left the workplace is absolutely unconstitutional and so bad for in fact, forty-five senators have already voted that it is unconstitutional. We have made many paintings, but we have not made a final decision on our law. team, which will be done shortly,” said Jason Miller, spokesman for Trump. ABC News on Saturday.
It is not known who will constitute Trump, with several features now off the table. Trump’s former lawyer, Jay Sekulow, who constituted it in his first political trial, will not participate in the trial. Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s non-public lawyer, also said he would not constitute the former president after appearing at the same rally that preceded Capitol Headquarters on January 6. The Senate trial is scheduled to begin on February 9. It’s Trump, there aren’t enough Republican senators who have shown a tendency to convict him. Read more about the tumult within Trump’s legal trial team here.
This is the Saturday time of the Biden administration, and things are quiet on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Biden has no public events on his schedule this weekend and does not mention the paintings he can make in the scenes in the midst of negotiations. COVID-19. Biden’s Saturday program last week required him to meet with his advisers in the Oval Office even though the assembly was closed to the press.
It’s not unusual for Biden weekends to be quiet. Apart from a few occasions on Saturdays towards the end of the transition or departures to move to Mass, Biden scored to the maximum of his public hours in the classic working week. But in the midst of the pandemic and nepassations. about the proposed ransom of nearly $2 trillion, it’s remarkable how low the new administration is keeping its profile this week.
Biden’s White House staff leader Ronald Klain gave a brief review of white house schedule on Saturday, responding to a tweet from Senator Amy Klobuchar expressing the feeling of waking up on a Saturday and not having to deal with a tweet from President Trump. .
“I tweet fast to say that today we are running in WH on the next steps in COVID’s response, making sure we are in a position for the winter typhoon and advancing in the US rescue program,” Klain tweeted in response.
-ABC News ‘Molly Nagle
The South Carolina Republican Party voted Saturday to censure Rep. Tom Rice, one of 10 Republicans who supported Trump’s political trial, officially rebuking one of its own in some other sign that Trump continues to exert a significant influence on the REPUBLICAN Party. The decision, symbolically, was approved, through 43 members of the executive committee, with two abstentions and no vote against.
“Unfortunately, Congressman Rice’s vote played directly in the Game of Democrats, and the others in his district, and in the end our state executive committee, sought him out to know that they completely disagreed with his decision,” said Drew McKissick, the party’s state president in a report. Rice represents the seventh district of Congress, stretching from the border with North Carolina to Myrtle Beach and supported Trump on nearly 20 issues in the 2020 election. After the political trial vote, McKissick said he was “seriously disappointed” with Rice, a term in Congress. -Kendall Karson of ABC News
White House communications director Kate Bedingfield on Friday defended President Joe Biden’s use of executive movements in ABC’s The View. His authority as president to reverse them and fix that pain and start putting us on a better path,” Bedingfield said.
The president has been criticized for relying heavily on executive movements at the beginning of his presidency. During the first week and part of his tenure, Biden signed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, racial equity, physical care, and more. ‘ABC News’ Adia Robinson