In 2016, then-President-elect Donald Trump humiliated Mitt Romney at a fancy dinner. In casting his impeachment vote, Romney returned the favor.
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Debra J. Saunders

Debra J. Saunders, the Review-Journal's White House correspondent from 2017 to 2021, is the newspaper's Washington columnist. Her columns will appear two to three times weekly.
Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas was the impeachment supporters’ hero until they learned about John Bolton’s book. His version of events doesn’t really nail Donald Trump, but how did this “wild and crazy guy” get near a president?
There are no winners in this sorry saga.
Fact-checkers have closely followed President Donald Trump’s legal team, but with the Democrats arguing for the president’s removal from office? Not so much.
The president took strong decisive action in killing Iranian terrorist leader Qassem Soleimani in January, but he undercuts his credibility by associating with disreputable people.
Ivanka Trump was qualified to speak at CES 2020 – which may be why some critics didn’t want her to.
Former HUD Secretary Julian Castro, who dropped out of the 2020 Democratic primary on Thursday, was one of the shriller candidates in the crowded field.
Congress decides we have two ages for adulthood.
WASHINGTON — Imagine there is a murder trial that takes months and involves many witnesses, then, at the end, the prosecutor announces that he’s done such a great job of arguing guilt, he’s not going to send the case to the jury.
Forget the media narrative; the Justice Department’s inspector general found plenty wrong with the FBI’s investigation of President Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Donald Trump’s problem isn’t that he talks too much to the press, it’s that he doesn’t take care in what he says to the press.
Middle- and high-school students in Baltimore booed first lady Melania Trump at a summit on opioid awareness, and received cheers from the left for their rudeness.
Democrats have failed to learn the important lessons that came from the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton, and the results will likely end up the same.
Lauding people’s “courage” on Twitter is less about fortitude and more about concurrence.
It’s so precious watching big-name journalists speak of the sanctity of guarding the anonymity of the Ukrainian phone call whistleblower.
