President realDonaldTrump has even turned on his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and grown irritated at his lavish spending, telling aides to stop paying him.
With only a week left in Trump's term, there were no bellicose messages from the White House fighting the proceedings on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and no organised legal response. Some congressional Republicans did defend the President during House debate on impeachment, their words carrying across the same space violated by rioters one week earlier during a siege of the citadel of democracy that left five dead.It was a marked change from Trump’s first impeachment.
The third-ranking Republican in the House, Representaive Liz Cheney of Wyoming, said there had “never been a greater betrayal” by a president. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky, told colleagues in a letter that he had not decided how he would vote in an impeachment trial. He also has turned on his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who touted election conspiracy theories and whom many in the president's orbit believe shoulders some of the blame for both impeachments. Trump had grown irritated at Giuliani's lavish spending, which included a request to be paid $US20,000 a day, and told aides to stop paying him.Trump watched much of the day's proceedings on TV from the White House residence and his private dining area off the Oval Office.
A White House spokesman did not respond to questions about whether anyone in the building was trying to defend Trump, who was now the subject of half of the presidential impeachments in the nation's history.
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