Thursday's Headlines: Trump’s legal team advances broad defense against impeachment
All the president's disloyal men: Trump demands fealty but inspires very little; Wavering Democrats face pressure as GOP eyes bipartisan vote for Trump acquittal; John Bolton's attorney contends book does not contain classified material; U.S. life expectancy ticks up as drug fatalities and cancer deaths drop; China coronavirus cases growing by more than 1,000 per day, countries scramble to evacuate citizens; Grappling with how America should atone for the wrongs of the past; Republicans' damaging new line of defense; Trump's peace plan won't have a chance unless Israel shows restraint; Dershowitz ignores the precedent of Nixon's articles of impeachment; Iowa is a test of whether Sanders's surge will endure; Trump's confederacy of dunces; The Trump-induced agony of the Iowa voter; Anti-human-trafficking groups refuse to attend Ivanka Trump's White House summit; More women testify that Weinstein assaulted them; Prosecutors appear to back away from prison recommendation for Michael Flynn; Who's paying for Trump's impeachment defense?
Republicans suggested that any Democratic defections would fuel the GOP campaign to dismiss the impeachment probe as a partisan witch hunt while undermining Democrats' attempts to cast doubt on the fairness of the Senate trial.
The attorney also asked for an expedited review of a chapter about Ukraine in case the former national security adviser is called to testify in the Senate impeachment trial.
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Angry over the administration's treatment of immigrant trafficking victims, leaders of major organizations are boycotting the event, which the president plans to attend.
The witnesses faced down Harvey Weinstein at his criminal trial, describing casting couch promises that lured them into the powerful producer's orbit before he allegedly sexually assaulted them in the mid-2000s.
The filings, which say that probation remains a "reasonable sentence," come as Flynn attempts to withdraw the guilty plea he entered during Robert S. Mueller III's Russia probe.
Ann Marimow explores who is paying for the president's lawyers. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro tells The Post's Anthony Faiola that he's still firmly in control. And Marian Liu looks at the branding genius of K-pop group BTS.
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