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Senate acquits Trump in attack on Capitol
BY JENNIFER HABERKORN
AND EVAN HALPER
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The Senate
acquitted former President Donald
Trump Saturday in his second im-
peachment trial, even as seven mem-
bers of his own party delivered a his-
toric rebuke by joining Democrats in
voting to convict him of inciting the
deadly insurrection last month at the
U.S. Capitol.
The 57-43 vote to find Trump
guilty fell short of the 67 votes needed
for conviction, but it was the most bi-
partisan such vote in any presidential
impeachment trial, exposing the frac-
tures in a Republican Party divided
over its future after Trump’s presi-
dency.
The vote was immediately followed
by a blistering indictment of Trump
on the Senate floor by Minority
Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who
had voted to acquit saying that im-
peachment of a former president was
unconstitutional, but painted Trump
as an unhinged menace to democratic
institutions.
The Republicans who voted for
conviction were Sens. Richard M.
Burr of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy
“This trial, in the
final analysis, is not
about Donald
Trump. The country
and the world know
who Donald Trump
is. This trial is about
who we are.”
— Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., in his
closing arguments
of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine,
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Rom-
ney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and
Patrick J. Toomey of Pennsylvania.
Trump is the first American presi-
dent to be impeached twice, and this
trial, which lasted just five days, was
the first of a former president. The
House impeached him last month on
a charge of inciting the insurrection
Jan. 6, when a violent mob of his sup-
porters broke into and ransacked the
Capitol. The assault left five people
dead, including a police officer.
“It is now clear beyond doubt that
Trump supported the actions of the
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mob, and so he must be convicted,”
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said in
his closing arguments. “If that’s not
grounds for impeachment — if that’s
not a high crime and misdemeanor
against the republic of the United
States of America — then nothing is.
President Trump must be convicted
for the safety and security of our de-
mocracy and our people.”
“This trial, in the final analysis, is
not about Donald Trump,” Raskin
continued. “The country and the
world know who Donald Trump is.
This trial is about who we are.”
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Hailey Dandurand’s
defense argues she
wasn’t an equal party
in 2017 Hawaii killing
BY GARRETT ANDREWS
The Bulletin
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BY SUZANNE ROIG • The Bulletin
hang out with friends and family. On a typical day, Beisler, 78, would normally be the first one to
seen parts of my family since
March of last year, and they live
right here in Bend. “
Beisler is among the more
technologically savvy seniors
who own a smartphone and a
tablet for accessing the internet,
so she was able to sign up for the
vaccine.
More vaccinations coming
On Monday, Deschutes County expects to receive
1,300 first-dose vaccinations for COVID-19 to be
administered to those 75 and older and those in
the Phase 1A and 1B groups. Second doses are
also scheduled to continue, according to county
health officials.
Oregon, the nation’s first
state to conduct all elections
by mail, would join the ranks
of other states to accept ballots
postmarked by election day
under legislation heard this
past week.
House bills 2226 and 2687,
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heard by the House Rules
Committee, are nearly iden-
tical, except that HB 2226 by
Rep. Marty Wilde, D-Eugene,
would allow third-party collec-
tion of ballots only on election
day itself.
Oregon now requires mail
ballots to be in the hands of
county elections officials by
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8 p.m. election day. Postmarks
do not count, unlike the prac-
tice in Washington, California,
Nevada, 11 other states and
Washington, D.C., accord-
ing to a 2020 report by the
National Conference of State
Legislatures. Four other states
require a postmark the day be-
fore the election.
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BY PETER WONG
Oregon Capital Bureau
blood by a family of Austra-
lian tourists. That didn’t stop
Dandurand from seeking a re-
straining order against Brown
last year. The order, approved
by a judge in July, offers a win-
dow into a relationship said to
be brief, violent and colored by
extreme psychological abuse.
“I was sleeping,” Dandurand
wrote in her petition. “He
wanted me to wake up. So he
slapped me in my face about
maybe 15 times. He said there
was a warrant for his arrest and
he wanted me to get up and talk
to him. He said if the cops come,
we may have to ‘police suicide.’”
Hailey Kai Dan-
durand appears
in Honolulu Dis-
trict Court on Dec.
11, 2017. She and
her ex-boyfriend,
Stephen Brown,
are are charged
with second-de-
gree murder and
other offenses
in the killing of a
woman in Hawaii.
contact her neighbors to go out and do something.
Instead, Beisler, who lives near
Oregon State University-Cas-
cades, hasn’t been able to orga-
nize the annual holiday bazaar.
She hasn’t gone for lunch, exer-
cised or hung out with anyone
other than her brother and her
son. That’s it, she said.
“I really miss socializing, that’s
for sure,” Beisler said. “I haven’t
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Hailey Kai Dandurand, shown
in an undated family photo, has
been in custody since 2017.
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Under the proposed change,
county officials would have to
receive postmarked ballots no
later than seven days after the
election. States with similar
laws have differing deadlines.
A count for the Nov. 3 gen-
eral election is not final, but in
Oregon’s 2016 and 2018 gen-
eral elections, nearly half a mil-
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lion of the ballots ultimately
counted were turned in on the
final day, either by mail or drop
boxes maintained by the 36
counties.
Secretary of State Shemia
Fagan, the state’s chief elections
officer, says it’s time to end the
confusion.
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Correction
A guest column headlined
“Housing solutions Bend should
consider” which appeared Feb.
12, on Page A5, contained a
mistake. Due to an editing er-
ror, the author’s description of
the composition of homes in a
Bend zone was changed. She in-
tended to say Bend requires half
of the homes in a medium -den-
sity zoned development to be
multi-family. The Bulletin regrets
the error.
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he thing Diane Beisler misses the most since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic is her ability to
To many on the island of
Oahu, Hailey Kai Dandurand
is a glowering figure in baby
blue jail clothes, half of a duo
accused of one of the more
brutal and high-profile killings
in Hawaii in recent history.
The Bend native, and her
ex-boyfriend Stephen Brown,
are charged with killing Telma
Boinville at a North Shore hol-
iday home in late 2017. But
as the trial date keeps getting
pushed back, Dandurand’s de-
fense is trying to have them
tried separately, arguing she
wasn’t an equal party to the
killing and is in fact another
victim of her co-defendant,
Brown, who has a documented
history of violent and coercive
relationships with women.
Dandurand, 23, and Brown
have been in custody at the
Oahu Community Correc-
tional Center since their arrest
hours after Boinville’s body
was discovered in a pool of
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