AFP, WASHINGTONDemocrats warned that US President Donald Trump was on the verge of dictatorship, while Republicans defended his record at the opening of a stormy debate on impeachment charges in Washington on Wednesday. The parties held to diametrically opposed views of Trump as they weighed articles of impeachment at the beginning of a two-day debate. “Today we begin consideration of two articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump,” Nadler said. Trump faces becoming only the third president in US history to be impeached and placed on trial in the Senate. Republicans say it was a conflict of interest at best that Biden’s son Hunter served on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy firm, while his father was US vice president.

Source: Taipei Times December 12, 2019 15:56 UTC