No Capitol punishment: Trump’s acquittal
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 15 February 2021
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Summary
Donald Trump was all but certain to be cleared in his Senate trial, and so it went. But the few Republican votes to convict are telling. What next for the former president? A look into Swiss efforts to track down a missing $230m raises disturbing questions. And why women aren’t getting the laughs as stand-up comedy grows in China.
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| 0:46.7 | More than a decade ago, $230 million went missing in Russia. |
| 0:56.4 | The hunt for that money has become a global mission. |
| 0:59.7 | But reporting by our correspondent raises concerns that Switzerland |
| 1:04.0 | isn't doing much to solve the mystery. |
| 1:08.0 | And Western style stand-up comedy doesn't have much heritage in China, |
| 1:13.0 | but it's spreading fast. Problem is, Chinese audiences don't think it's quite so funny |
| 1:18.4 | when it's a female comic up on the stage telling it how it is. |
| 1:28.4 | First up though. |
| 1:33.2 | Senators, how say you? Is the respondent dollar-john Trump guilty or not guilty? |
| 1:40.9 | The precise vote count had been in question, the outcome, all but assured. |
| 1:45.9 | Few expected that Donald Trump's impeachment for inciting the mob that stormed the capital |
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