Trump lawyer targeted as rhetoric heats up

US president's treason, civil war tweets follow Democrat subpoena

WASHINGTON - At one end of Pennsylvania Avenue, US President Donald Trump raged about treason. At the other, the methodical march toward impeachment proceeded apace.

Democrats on Monday subpoenaed Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer who was at the heart of Trump's efforts to get Ukraine to investigate political rival Joe Biden's family. That was after one of Trump's staunchest defenders, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, said he would have "no choice" but to consider articles of impeachment if the House of Representatives approved them.