Section: The New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)
Takeaways from US ambassador to Ukraine’s testimony in House impeachment hearing
Marie Yovanovitch, the former US ambassador to Ukraine who was ousted from that job in April amid a smear campaign, testified Friday in the second public impeachment hearing into US President Donald Trump.Below are some takeaways… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
Ousted Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch felt threatened by Donald Trump
Former US Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch provided chilling detail Friday in Trump impeachment hearings of being suddenly ousted from her post and feeling threatened upon learning President Donald Trump had denounced her in a… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
Sondland’s phone call to Trump from Kyiv restaurant was a stunning breach of security, former officials say
A US ambassador’s cellphone call to President Donald Trump from a restaurant in the capital of Ukraine last summer was a stunning breach of security, exposing the conversation to surveillance by foreign intelligence services, including… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
Impeachment hearings: New evidence implicates Donald Trump more directly with Ukraine
The first day of public impeachment hearings unearthed new evidence potentially implicating President Donald Trump more directly in a scheme to centre American policy toward Ukraine on political investigations, heightening the stakes… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
Key impeachment question: What did Trump want from Ukraine – and what exactly did he do?
In the nearly 3,000 pages of interviews from the House impeachment inquiry released last week, President Donald Trump often seems like a supporting character in someone else’s drama.Aides struggle to please him. They fret about… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
Jennifer Rubin: Republicans admit they have no fact witnesses – and Trump did it
COMMENT: House Republicans acknowledged that they have no witnesses and no documents to dispute the main facts concerning President Donald Trump’s impeachable conduct: a demand from Ukraine for dirt on a political rival; withholding… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
What you need to know about Donald Trump releasing the second Ukraine phone call
For only the fourth time in U.S. history, the House of Representatives has started a presidential impeachment inquiry. House committees are trying to determine whether President Donald Trump violated his oath of office by asking… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
After Ukraine and Syria, Russia turns its attention to Libya’s proxy war
At first, the fighters inside the empty school building in Al Aziziyah, about 20 burly, heavily armed Russian mercenaries in dark fatigues, seemed trapped, recalled some of the Libyan militiamen who were there.But as the Libyans… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
Diplomat tries to shield Trump – and himself – from culpability
It’s clear that Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the European Union, would rather not incriminate US President Donald Trump in an effort to leverage American aid to Ukraine for politically useful investigations. It’s also clear… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
Official who heard call to Zelensky told to keep quiet
Several days after Donald Trump’s phone call with the leader of Ukraine, a top White House lawyer instructed a senior national security official not to discuss his grave concerns about the leaders’ conversation with anyone outside… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
