Section: Al-Manar TV (Lebanon)
Top Democrats Ask Pence to Turn over Ukraine Documents
Democrats in Congress leading an impeachment probe have requested documents related to President Donald Trump’s policy toward Ukraine from Vice President Mike Pence. They made their request on Friday in a letter addressed to Pence in which the Democratic chairmen of three House committees cite reports that a Pence aide may have listened to...
US Approves Anti-Tank Missiles Sale to Ukraine Amid Phone Call Scandal
The US State Department has approved the possible sale of anti-tank missiles to Ukraine in a move which is likely to anger Russia. The State Department approved on Thursday the possible military sale to Ukraine of 150 Javelin anti-tank missiles and two additional missile launchers, worth approximately $39.2 million. “This proposed sale will...
Trump-Ukraine Scandal: Maxine Waters ‘Hopes’ to See Mike Pompeo Arrested if He Defies Subpoena
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Trump Calls Impeachment Probe ‘A Coup’ Designed to Strip Citizens of Rights in Furious Twitter Thread
US President Donald Trump issued his most inflammatory condemnation yet of the impeachment investigation against him, labelling it “a COUP” designed to strip Americans of their freedoms. Trump is currently being investigated over a phone call to Ukraine‘s Volodymyr Zelensky in which it is said he tried to leverage military aid for personal...
Trump Says He Wants to Meet WhistleBlower: ‘I Deserve to Meet my Accuser’
US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he wants and deserves to meet the anonymous whistleblower at the center of the fast-moving scandal that has triggered an impeachment probe against him. The whistleblower, who could testify soon before Congress, fears for their safety if their identity is revealed, according to a lawyers’ letter...
White House Restricted Access to Trump’s Calls with Putin, MBS
White House efforts to limit access to President Donald Trump’s conversations with foreign leaders extended to phone calls with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the CNN reported Friday, according to people familiar with the matter. Those calls — both with leaders who maintain controversial...
Democrats Subpoena Pompeo as Part of Impeachment Inquiry
The chairmen of three House committees subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Friday over his failure to produce documents relating to Donald Trump administration’s dealings with Ukraine. It is the latest move in rapidly escalating impeachment proceedings against Trump, who is being scrutinized for allegedly pressuring Ukraine’s...
‘No Choice’ but to Launch Impeachment Probe: Pelosi
Democrats had “no choice” but to launch an impeachment probe into Donald Trump, House speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday, saying the US president put national security in jeopardy with his attempts to get Ukraine to investigate political rival Joe Biden. Pelosi formally launched the impeachment inquiry earlier this week amid a confrontation between...
Clinton: Trump ‘Illegitimate President’ and ‘Corrupt Human Tornado’
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Trump’s presidential campaign rival from 2016, chose strong words to voice her support for the House of Representatives’ newly-launched impeachment inquiry. Speaking to CBS, she brought up the recent controversy over the July phone call between President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart...
Whistleblower: White House Intervened after Trump-Ukraine Call
US President Donald Trump solicited interference from Ukraine to influence the 2020 US elections, and the White House intervened to “lock down” the transcript of the call, a whistleblower said a complaint released Thursday. “I have received information from multiple US government officials that the president of the United States is using the...
