Thursday night brought a surreal split screen as the president railed against foes in Iowa while the sombre trial continued
Donald Trump turned his own trial into a punchline on Thursday as he held a campaign rally in Iowa ahead of the first-in-the-nation caucuses, declaring: “We call this ‘impeachment-lite’.”
In an American presidency that has offered many split screens, few were more dramatic than the duality of the president flippantly whipping a crowd into a frenzy at a basketball arena while Chief Justice John Roberts oversaw the sombre impeachment trial in the Senate chamber.
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