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News24.com | Aides claim Trump the true ‘whistleblower’ in Ukraine scandal
Top aides to Donald Trump have sought to turn the tables on Democrats pushing for his impeachment, insisting the president was the true “whistleblower” in pushing Ukraine to probe the son of rival Joe Biden for corruption. …read more Source::...
News24.com | Student journalist scoops major media on Trump envoy departure
News that US President Donald Trump’s special representative on Ukraine had abruptly resigned didn’t come from a high-profile newsroom in Washington or New York — a 20-year-old student journalist on the other side of the country scooped them all. …read more Source::...
News24.com | Ukraine concerned as US envoy named in Trump scandal quits
Ukrainian politicians expressed alarm after US special representative on Kiev affairs Kurt Volker resigned following a summons by US Congress to answer questions in an impeachment inquiry on President Donald Trump. …read more Source::...
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)...
News24.com | WATCH | US envoy on Ukraine, named in Trump scandal, resigns: source
US special representative on Ukraine Kurt Volker has resigned after Congress ordered him to answer questions in an impeachment investigation on President Donald Trump, a source has said. …read more Source::...
News24.com | Russia tells US not to release Trump-Putin transcripts
Russia has urged the United States not to publish Donald Trump’s conversations with Vladimir Putin after a growing scandal led the White House to release a transcript from a call with Ukraine’s leader. …read more Source::...
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...
