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Rival candidate pays Facebook to spread ‘lie’ Zuckerberg backs Trump
Elizabeth Warren (AFP/Getty pic)SINGAPORE: Elizabeth Warren is buying ads on Facebook that falsely claim Mark Zuckerberg has endorsed President Donald Trump – a ploy used to showcase that ads posted by politicians need to be fact-checked. Democratic presidential candidate’s campaign sponsored the posts that were blasted into the feeds of US...
Trump names Republican veteran as envoy to Russia
Sullivan was hinted by US president to be up for the job in August. (AFP pic)WASHINGTON: Donald Trump yesterday named State Department number two John Sullivan to be the US ambassador to Russia, making the veteran Republican a key player in the US president’s complicated relationship with Moscow. Trump announced that Sullivan, a genial...
Top aide to US Secretary of State Pompeo resigns
Michael McKinley (right) told colleagues he was leaving for personal reasons. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: A senior adviser to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has resigned, with the State Department mired in a controversy over the Trump administration’s dealings with Ukraine that has prompted an impeachment inquiry targeting the president. Michael...
Trump tries turning impeachment scandal into re-election fuel
Trump addresses a campaign rally in Minneapolis. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: As impeachment pressure mounted on President Donald Trump he left Washington for a second day in a row yesterday to rally hardcore supporters in a bid to turn the scandal into fuel for his 2020 re-election. Trump lifted off from the White House in Marine One to catch a flight to...
Trump had Ukraine envoy ousted over ‘false claims,’ she tells probe
Yovanovitch is the first Trump administration official to testify in Congress. (AFP/Getty pic)WASHINGTON: Former US ambassador to Ukraine reportedly told impeachment investigators yesterday President Donald Trump had sought her removal for months, and that she was eventually pushed out on “false claims” by questionable actors. In the first...
Trump promises 2020 election ‘backlash’ against impeachment
MINNEAPOLIS: An angry, energized President Donald Trump whipped supporters into a frenzy Thursday at a Minneapolis campaign rally where he predicted a 2020 election “backlash” against Democratic attempts to impeach him.Democrats are investigating Trump for possible impeachment over his alleged bid to pressure Ukraine into digging up dirt on...
No troops pullback, no Normandy summit, says Ukraine’s president
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky. (AFP pic)KIEV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday threatened to call off a summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin if all sides do not agree on plans to pull out troops from the east. The country’s comedian-turned-leader is gearing up to hold talks with Putin in Paris to revive...
House subpoenas Giuliani Ukraine associates in impeachment inquiry
This courtroom sketch depicts from left, attorney Kevin Downing, Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman, and attorney Thomas Zehnle standing before US Judge Michael Nachmanoff, at federal courthouse in Alexandria. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: Democratic leaders of the House impeachment inquiry issued subpoenas on Thursday to two associates of President Donald...
Trump should be impeached, says Biden
Former Vice President Joe Biden says President Trump ‘violated his oath of office.’ (Bloomberg pic)ROCHESTER: Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden called for the impeachment of US President Donald Trump for the first time on Wednesday in his strongest indictment of the Republican leader’s actions involving Ukraine. Biden, who...
Ukraine leader denies Trump blackmailed him
Zelenskiy (left) and Trump during a meeting last month. (AP pic)KIEV: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday US President Donald Trump did not seek to blackmail him during a phone call in July or a meeting in September. Zelenskiy said he had not known that US military aid to Ukraine had been blocked at the time of the...
