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Ukraine’s president: Kiev unlikely to publish Trump call transcript
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Monday that Kiev was unlikely to publish its version of a transcript of a July 25 phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump, at the heart of an impeachment inquiry in Washington. …read more Source:: The Daily...
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...
How Trump enlisted U.S. govt in pushing probe of rival
U.S. President Donald Trump pressed his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate a political foe. …read more Source:: The Daily...
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...
US envoy on Ukraine, named in Trump scandal, resigns: source
U.S. special representative on Ukraine Kurt Volker resigned Friday after Congress ordered him to answer questions in an impeachment investigation on President Donald Trump, a source said. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Pompeo subpoenaed as Democrats press Trump impeachment
Washington, Sept 28, 2019 (AFP) – Democrats charged aggressively into an impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump on Friday, ordering Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to turn over Ukraine-related documents and scheduling testimony for witnesses to alleged abuse of power by the US leader. …read more Source:: The Daily...
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...
White House accused of cover-up over Trump-Ukraine call
The White House scrambled to “lock down” records of President Donald Trump’s phone call pressing for Ukraine’s interference in next year’s US election, according to an incendiary whistleblower complaint released Thursday, in the latest episode of an intensifying impeachment drama. …read more Source:: The Daily...
