Trump's reality check in campaign start
His 2020 campaign gets off to a poor start; the Supreme Court rejects his applications; and there are embarrassing revelations from his former national security adviser.
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has had some bad weeks over his term of office so far - for example, when it was revealed that he and his surrogates paid US$130,000 to silence a sex worker, aka Stormy Daniels, about an affair she said she had with him in 2006.
He had a really, really bad week when, reflecting eroding public support for the controversial president, his Republican political allies lost control of the House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm congressional elections.
The White House occupant certainly had a horrible week on Dec 18, 2019, when the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives approved articles of impeachment against him on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, becoming the third president to be impeached in American history.
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