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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward,Andrew Naughtie and Stuti Mishra

Trump news – live: 11 GOP senators vote against Ukraine aid as Cruz faces lawsuit over 2020 election

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Donald Trump is supposedly writing a book on how presidency was stolen from him

Texas Senator Ted Cruz is facing a lawsuit from a campaign group seeking to get him disbarred in Texas for his participation in a failed attempt to get the 2020 election overturned at the US Supreme Court.

Mr Cruz, who formally objected to Joe Biden’s victory in the Senate even after the Capitol was attacked by Trump supporters during the proceedings, is accused of violating legal ethics by participating in the doomed Texas v Pennsylvania case that his state sue several others that Mr Biden had legitimately won.

Meanwhile, as the 6 January committee prepares for a summer of what promise to be shocking and disturbing hearings about the Capitol riot, Donald Trump has laid into committee member Liz Cheney, claiming that she has taken her opposition to him to extremes. In an interview with The Washington Post, he called her a “crazed lunatic.”

The committee’s first public hearing since last year is set for 9 June.

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