Inside the Red-State Plot to Take Down a Top Trump Ally

Updated at 12:30 p.m. ET on November 13, 2021. For many Utahns, the Trump rally was the breaking point. A few days before the 2020 election, Senator Mike Lee paced across a red, white, and blue stage in Goodyear, Arizona, microphone in hand, rhapsodizing about the president’s many virtues while he looked on. Lee’s talking points were mostly familiar. But then he arrived at a novel line of flattery, pitched to his coreligionists: He compared Trump to a figure from the Book of Mormon. “To my Mormon friends, my Latter-day…

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U.S. Congress stares down long odds for bringing Trump to book – The Japan Times

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117th Congress: Breaking down the historic numbers – CNN

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