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Voice of America: Once political allies, Trump, Senate Republican leader now sparring sharply

Published Feb. 18, 2021. Updated Feb. 18 at 2:22 am

House impeachment managers proceed through the Rotunda from the House side of the U.S. Capitol to the U.S. Senate chamber as the second impeachment trial of former U.S. President Donald Trump begins on Feb. 9, 2021 in Washington, DC.

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For four years, former U.S. President Donald Trump and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell were politically joined at the hip, with the lawmaker eagerly advancing Trump’s demands to cuts taxes, curb governmental regulations and install conservative jurists on the Supreme Court and lower courts across the country.