唐纳德·特朗普总统正与本该分手的律师分道扬镳主持弹劾审判消息人士告诉美国广播公司新闻，从一周多一点开始。

这位前总统将不再与南卡罗来纳州律师布奇·鲍尔斯和他的同事合作，其中包括黛博拉·栗林诚一郎。一位接近前总统的消息人士称，这一变化是两党之间的“共同决定”。敦促鲍尔斯接手此案的参议员林赛·格雷厄姆(Lindsey Graham)曾在1月21日告诉他的参议院共和党同事，鲍尔斯将代表特朗普。

“民主党试图弹劾一位已经离任的总统是完全违反宪法的，对我们的国家非常不利。事实上，已经有45名参议员投票认为该法案违宪。我们已经做了很多工作，但还没有对我们的法律团队做出最终决定，这将很快做出，”特朗普的发言人杰森·米勒周六告诉美国广播公司新闻。

 

 

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目前还不清楚谁将代表特朗普，目前还没有几个选择。

特朗普的前高级律师杰伊·塞库罗(Jay Sekulow)在他的第一次弹劾审判中代表他，他将不会参加这次审判。特朗普的私人律师鲁迪·朱利安尼也表示他会不代表前总统在1月6日国会山被围困之前的同一次集会上出现。

参议院的审判是计划开始2月9日。无论谁代表特朗普，都没有足够多的共和党参议员表现出给他定罪的倾向。

这是拜登政府的第二个星期六，宾夕法尼亚大道1600号又恢复了平静。

拜登本周末的日程中没有任何公共活动，也没有提到他在谈判中可能在幕后做的工作新冠肺炎（新型冠状病毒肺炎）救援包。

拜登上周周六的日程安排包括，尽管会议不对媒体开放，但他将在椭圆形办公室会见他的顾问。

 

 

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乔·拜登总统离开乔治城附近的三位一体天主教堂

拜登的周末很安静，这并不罕见。除了过渡结束前的几个周六活动或去参加弥撒之外，拜登的大部分公共日程都集中在传统的工作周上。尽管如此，在大流行期间谈判在近2万亿美元的救市计划中，新政府在周末保持低调是显而易见的。

拜登的白宫办公厅主任罗纳德·克莱恩(Ronald Klain)周六确实简要概述了白宫的议程，回应了参议员艾米·克洛布查尔(Amy Klobuchar)的一条推文，她表达了一种奇怪的感觉，即在周六醒来，不必与特朗普总统的推文抗争。

克莱恩在推特上回应道:“快速发推特说，我们今天正在WH努力推进COVID的下一步应对措施，确保我们为冬季风暴做好准备，并推进美国救援计划。”。

南卡罗来纳州共和党周六投票谴责众议员汤姆·赖斯(Tom Rice)，他是支持弹劾特朗普的10名共和党人之一，他们正式指责了自己的一名共和党人，这是特朗普继续对共和党拥有重大影响力的另一个迹象。
这一举动虽然具有象征意义，但得到了执行委员会43名成员的批准，其中两人弃权，没有人投票反对。

“众议员赖斯的投票不幸地进入了民主党的游戏，他所在地区的人民，最终是我们的州执行委员会，希望他知道他们全心全意地不同意他的决定，”该州党主席德鲁·麦克基西克(Drew McKissick)在一份声明中说。
赖斯代表第七国会选区，该选区从北卡罗来纳州边境延伸到默特尔海滩，在2020年的选举中以近20个百分点支持特朗普。
弹劾投票后，麦克基西克表示，他对五届国会议员赖斯“严重失望”。

President Donald Trump is parting ways with the lawyer who was supposed to anchor his impeachment trial -- beginning in just a little over a week, sources told ABC News.

The former president will no longer be working with South Carolina attorney Butch Bowers and his associates, including Deborah Barbier. A source close to the former president described the change as a "mutual decision" between the parties. Sen. Lindsey Graham, who urged Bowers to take the case, had told his Senate GOP colleagues Jan. 21 that Bowers would be representing Trump.

"The Democrats' efforts to impeach a president who has already left office is totally unconstitutional and so bad for our country. In fact, 45 Senators have already voted that it is unconstitutional. We have done much work, but have not made a final decision on our legal team, which will be made shortly,” Jason Miller, a spokesperson for Trump, told ABC News Saturday.

It's not clear who will be representing Trump, with several options now off the table.

Trump's former top lawyer, Jay Sekulow, who represented him at his first impeachment trial, will not be taking part in this trial. Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer, also said he will not be representing the former president after appearing at the same rally that preceded the siege on the Capitol on Jan. 6.

The Senate trial is scheduled to start on Feb. 9. Regardless of who represents Trump, not enough GOP senators have shown an inclination to convict him.

It's the second Saturday of the Biden administration, and things are again quiet at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Biden does not have any public events on his schedule this weekend and does not include any mention of the work he may be doing behind the scenes amid the negotiations over his COVID-19 rescue package.  

Biden's Saturday schedule last week included that he would be meeting with his advisers in the Oval Office despite that meeting being closed to the press.

It's not unusual for Biden's weekends to be on the quiet side. Outside a few Saturday events toward the end of the transition or outings to go to Mass, Biden focused most of his public schedule on the traditional workweek. Still, in the midst of the pandemic and negotiations over the nearly $2 trillion proposed rescue package, it's notable how low a profile the new administration is keeping on the weekend.

Biden's White House Chief of Staff Ronald Klain did give a short overview of the White House agenda Saturday, responding to a tweet from Sen. Amy Klobuchar expressing the odd feeling of waking up on a Saturday and not having to contend with a tweet from President Trump. 

“Quick tweet to say we're working at the WH today on next steps in the COVID response, making sure we're ready for the winter storm, and advancing the American Rescue Package," Klain tweeted in response.

The South Carolina GOP voted on Saturday to censure Rep. Tom Rice, one of the 10 Republicans who supported impeaching Trump -- formally rebuking one of their own in another sign that Trump continues to hold significant sway over the Republican Party. 
The move, although symbolic, was approved by 43 members of the executive committee, with two abstaining and none voting against it.

"Congressman Rice's vote unfortunately played right into the Democrats' game, and the people in his district, and ultimately our State Executive Committee, wanted him to know they wholeheartedly disagree with his decision," Drew McKissick, the chair of the state party, said in a statement. 
Rice represents the 7th Congressional District, which stretches from the border with North Carolina to Myrtle Beach and backed Trump by nearly 20 points in the 2020 election.
After the impeachment vote, McKissick said he was "severely disappointed" in Rice, a five-term congressman.

White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield defended President Joe Biden’s use of executive actions on ABC’s “The View” on Friday.
“What he's done is looked at some of the most egregious, damaging actions from the Trump administration, done by executive order, and used his authority as president to roll those back and to undo that damage and to start to get us on a better path,” Bedingfield said.

The president has been criticized for relying heavily on executive actions at the beginning of his presidency. Over the first week and a half of his term, Biden has signed  addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, racial equity, health care and more.