Impeachment trial continues with day two of Q&A phaseTrump attorney makes ‘odd’ claim about public interestHelp us cover the critical issues of 2020. Consider making a contribution 1.38pm GMT The US economy missed the Trump administration’s 3% growth target for a second straight year, Reuters reports, posting its slowest annual growth in three years in 2019 as the slump in business investment deepened amid damaging trade tensions. The economy grew 2.3% last year, the Commerce Department said on Thursday. That was the slowest since 2016 and followed the 2.9% notched in 2018. The 3% growth target has remained elusive despite the White House and Republicans’ $1.5 trillion tax cut package, which President Donald Trump had predicted would lift growth persistently above that target. 1.33pm GMT Away from the impeachment, the Democratic presidential race begins in earnest on Monday with the Iowa caucuses.Leftwinger Bernie Sanders is in a strong position there, according to polling averages, although caucuses – in which voters gather for local meetings to demonstrate their support for a candidate and win over anyone else they can – can be hard to poll. Continue reading…
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PIERS MORGAN: A phone call I received from a fired-up Trump should be a warning to Democrats
President Trump called me for a chat on Saturday. It was our first conversation since he unfollowed me on Twitter in April after I wrote a Mail column telling him to ‘Shut the f*ck up Read more…