Pelosi says removing Trump ’emergency of highest magnitude’
08 January 2021 |
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Donald Trump supporters lay flowers and pray outside the US Capitol at a makeshift memorial for Ashli Babbitt, the woman who was fatally shot as backers of the president stormed the building Wednesday in Washington, DC.
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