House speaker removed intelligence committee chair Mike Turner, whose stances have run afoul with Trump
Joe Biden’s farewell address to the nation last night was a “dark, ominous warning about something wider and deeper of which Trump is a symptom”, the Guardian’s David Smith writes: There was a sting in the tail. Joe Biden’s farewell address had not seemed like a must-watch for most politics-weary Americans. Those who did dutifully tune in might have been expecting the president to deliver a yawn-inducing first draft of his White House memoir.
But after more than half a century in elected office, the 82-year-old great-grandfather had one last surprise. The prime-time speech did not mention Donald Trump by name. Instead it will be remembered for its dark, ominous warning about something wider and deeper of which Trump is a symptom.
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