Section: Independent Online (South Africa)
Pro-Trump amateur sleuths scramble to unmask whistleblower
Washington – The looming battle over President Donald Trump’s potential impeachment has sparked an online hunt in the far-right corners of the Web as self-styled internet sleuths race to identify the anonymous person Trump has likened to a treasonous spy. Their guesses have been scattershot, conspiratorial and often untethered from...
Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine resigns amid whistleblower fallout
Kurt Volker resigned Friday as the Trump administration’s special envoy for Ukraine, according to a person with knowledge of the event. He is the first casualty of Congress’ impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s conduct with that country. Volker, a former career diplomat who heads the McCain Institute and worked at...
Poll shows half of US voters back Trump impeachment
Washington – The House Democrats’ campaign arm had a parting message as members headed back home for a two-week recess Friday night: A new poll shows more than half of likely voters support opening an impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump. The poll, commissioned by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)...
WATCH: Democrats move ahead with Trump impeachment
Washington — House Democrats took their first concrete steps in the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump, issuing subpoenas demanding documents from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and scheduling legal depositions for other State Department officials. At the end of a stormy week of revelation and recrimination, House Speaker Nancy...
Ukraine’s prosecutor says no probe into Joe Biden, son
MOSCOW — Ukraine’s top anti-corruption official said Friday his agency hasn’t investigated former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden or his son as U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested. Trump’s call on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate his political rival Biden and his son, Hunter, who served on the board of...
Trump Ukraine whistleblower ‘will be remembered as a truth-seeker’
Washington – The whistleblower’s identity remains obscured, the details of his work for the CIA cloaked in secrecy. But the document he delivered reveals almost as much about the investigative mission he carried out in stealth as it does about the alleged abuses of power by the president. From the moment he learned about President...
Whistleblower claims Trump abused office, White House officials tried to cover it up
WASHINGTON – The whistleblower complaint at the heart of the burgeoning controversy over President Donald Trump’s call with the Ukrainian president claims not only that Trump misused his office for personal gain and endangered national security but that unidentified White House officials tried to hide that conduct. “In the...
Donald Trump calls impeachment inquiry a ‘disgraceful thing’
Washington — U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday House Democrats’ decision to launch a formal impeachment inquiry into him was a “disgraceful thing,” shortly after the White House released a memo of a phone conversation between the president and his Ukrainian counterpart. Speaking to reporters in New York, Trump...
‘Donald Trump has to be stopped’: Democrats defy impeachment risks
New York — Democrats are embracing an impeachment investigation that could jeopardise their House majority and alienate the very suburban voters who have warmed to the party in recent elections and will be vital to defeat President Donald Trump next fall. But a growing consensus is emerging among anxious Democrats: The risks are worth it....
Trump asked Ukraine to potentially open Biden probe, transcript shows
Washington – US President Donald Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to potentially open a corruption investigation into Joe Biden, Trump’s political rival, in a phone call in July, a transcript released by the White House showed. “Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into...
