Section: South China Morning Post (China)
Trump impeachment probe casts little-known diplomat Kurt Volker into spotlight
Kurt Volker was little known outside foreign policy circles as the United States’ special envoy to Ukraine until last week, when the whistle-blower complaint against US President Donald Trump recast the once obscure diplomat as a central figure in the unfolding impeachment inquiry.He arrived at Capitol Hill on Thursday to testify in private...
Impeachment probe: Democrats respond to Donald Trump’s fury with subpoenas
Democrats have set a blistering pace for their impeachment inquiry of United States President Donald Trump with a line-up of depositions – including the recently departed US envoy to Ukraine – stoking the President’s fury and feeding efforts to discredit the investigation.Kurt Volker, who stepped down last week from his unpaid role...
Impeachment probe: Democrats may charge Donald Trump with obstruction as president’s allies stonewall
US President Donald Trump, desperate to undermine a fast-moving impeachment probe, could be adding to his troubles.House Democrats say Trump’s stonewalling and threats to unmask a whistle-blower could lead to obstruction charges if articles of impeachment are drafted over the president’s request for Ukraine’s government to...
Mike Pompeo was on Donald Trump’s Ukraine call, officials say, as Democrats subpoena Rudy Giuliani in impeachment probe
Two US officials say Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was on the July 25 call between Donald Trump and Ukraine’s president that is at the centre of a whistle-blower complaint that has prompted an impeachment inquiry into the US president.The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an internal matter.It was the first confirmation...
How China can help Donald Trump keep his job and end the trade war
The latest scandal engulfing the Donald Trump White House threatens to divide America more than at any time since the US leader, during his inaugural address, blamed his predecessors and anyone else not supporting him for causing “American carnage”.It remains to be seen whether Trump sails through the Ukraine crisis the way he managed to escape...
Rudy Giuliani claims Trump did not pay for his trips across the globe to push for probe into election rival Joe Biden
Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, says he met Ukrainian officials in Madrid, Paris and Warsaw this year as he pushed an investigation into one of Trump’s main political rivals in the 2020 presidential election, former vice-president Joe Biden.Giuliani has emerged as a central figure in a scandal that has now...
Transcripts of Trump’s calls to Putin and Saudis hidden in top-secret server at White House
The White House reportedly dumped transcripts of US President Donald Trump’s calls to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman into the same top-secret computer server where it hid the incriminating record of his dirt-digging call with Ukraine’s president.The Trump calls were apparently put in the...
Impeachment now a threat like no other Trump has faced as Ukraine whistle-blower scandal deepens
From the moment Donald Trump became a national political figure, he has been shadowed by investigations and controversy.They have been layered, lengthy and often inconclusive, leaving many Americans scandal-weary and numb to his behaviour. And with each charge against him, Trump has perfected the art of deflection, seemingly gaining strength by...
Ukraine must investigate Joe Biden’s son over legality of role in gas company, says ex-Ukrainian prime minister Mykola Azarov
Ukraine must investigate the activities of US presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son to establish whether his role in a Ukrainian gas company complied with the country’s laws, Mykola Azarov, Ukraine’s former prime minister, said in an interview.Azarov did not specify to which Ukrainian laws he was referring.Hunter Biden’s...
Trump-Ukraine scandal: US special envoy Kurt Volker reportedly steps down as crisis widens
Kurt Volker, the US special envoy for Ukraine, has become the first casualty in the rapidly growing impeachment crisis surrounding Donald Trump, with multiple reports that he has resigned from his post.Volker was due to appear before congressional committees and was mentioned in the whistle-blower complaint as helping Ukraine president Volodymyr...
