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McClatchy Washington Bureau
McClatchy Washington Bureau
National
Michael Wilner and Emma Dumain

A 'calming factor' in the White House: Meet Trump's hidden hand on impeachment

WASHINGTON _ President Donald Trump has a lot of questions about how his Senate impeachment trial _ only the third in history _ will unfold. He's turning to one man for answers.

Eric Ueland has been working late nights in the West Wing, colleagues say, preparing for a litany of scenarios and arcane procedural challenges that could face the president now that articles of impeachment have been formally submitted to the Senate.

He is not a household name like many others in Trump's inner circle. But Ueland, the White House director of legislative affairs, has emerged as the administration's main point man for navigating impeachment in both chambers.

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