Section: South China Morning Post (China)
Donald Trump says it is foregone conclusion he will be impeached over Ukraine scandal
US President Donald Trump said on Monday it is a foregone conclusion that the Democratic-led House of Representatives will vote to impeach him over his request that Ukraine investigate a political rival as he exhorted his fellow Republicans to rally to his defence.Trump made his comments at the beginning of a Cabinet meeting at the White House as...
To win Rudy Giuliani’s help, Ukraine oligarch’s allies pursued dirt on Joe Biden
Associates of a Ukrainian oligarch fighting extradition to the US were working to dig up dirt on former vice-president Joe Biden last summer in an effort to get Rudy Giuliani’s help in the oligarch’s legal case, according to three people familiar with the exchanges.Dmitry Firtash, charged with conspiracy by the US and living in...
Donald Trump blocked Ukraine aid to force Kiev to investigate Democrats, Mick Mulvaney says
Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney told reporters on Thursday that US President Donald Trump blocked nearly US$400 million in military aid to Ukraine in part to force the government in Kiev to investigate his political rivals, a startling acknowledgement after the president’s repeated denials of a quid pro quo.Mulvaney defended...
Trump pushed for Ukraine probe of company linked to Hunter Biden, says diplomat Gordon Sondland
United States President Donald Trump instructed US diplomats to go through his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to make the Ukrainian president’s access to the White House dependent on launching investigations into Trump’s political opponents, the US ambassador to the EU has testified.In his opening statement to Congress on Thursday,...
‘Hand grenade’ Rudy Giuliani refuses to cooperate with Donald Trump impeachment inquiry
US President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani will not cooperate with a US House of Representatives impeachment inquiry that is scrutinising his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate a Trump political rival, Giuliani’s lawyer said on Tuesday.Giuliani’s lawyer, Jon Sale, told a lawyer for the three Democratic-led...
Under attack by Donald Trump, Hunter Biden says serving on Ukraine gas board was ‘poor judgment’
Hunter Biden, the son of former vice-president and 2020 US presidential hopeful Joe Biden, said his service on a Ukraine gas company board was proper but may have been a bad idea in hindsight.“In retrospect, I think that it was poor judgment on my part,” Hunter Biden said in an ABC News interview aired on Tuesday, in his first public comment...
Ukraine probe: John Bolton was so alarmed by Rudy Giuliani’s ‘drug deal’ he asked aide to alert White House lawyers
The former US national security adviser, John Bolton, was reportedly so alarmed at a backchannel effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate Donald Trump’s political rivals that he told a senior aide to report it to White House lawyers.The revelation of Bolton’s involvement in the effort to block a shadow foreign policy aimed at...
Donald Trump defends his lawyer Rudy Giuliani amid reports of federal investigation
President Donald Trump defended his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Saturday amid reports that federal prosecutors are investigating whether the former New York City mayor broke lobbying laws in his efforts to oust the former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yavonovitch.“So now they are after the legendary ‘crime buster’ and greatest Mayor...
Donald Trump called ex-Ukraine envoy Marie Yovanovitch ‘bad news’. Now she’s defying him to testify at impeachment inquiry
The former US ambassador to Ukraine who Donald Trump has called “bad news” told a House of Representatives impeachment inquiry into the president on Friday that Trump removed her from her post based on “unfounded and false claims”, according to US media reports.Marie Yovanovitch, who was abruptly recalled from Ukraine in May, told lawmakers in...
US charges two Ukraine-linked businessmen who helped Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani investigate Joe Biden
Two foreign-born Florida businessmen who have been helping President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer investigate political rival Joe Biden have been arrested on charges of funnelling foreign money to US political candidates and a pro-Trump election committee, authorities said on Thursday.The arrests were the latest dramatic development in a...
