Section: European Voice (EU)
Trump rages at new impeachment inquiry
U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announcement of an official impeachment inquiry into his conduct, complaining on Twitter that none of his White House predecessors have “been treated so badly” during their time in office. “There has been no President in the history of our Country who...
The big impeachment question: Is this 1974 or 1998?
So it looks like this might really be about to happen…. A week ago, the idea of impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump was something that the most hotly combative Democrats wanted but the most coolly calculating Democrats did not. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, previously the lead voice of the skeptics, on Tuesday announced her...
Inside Trump world, public defiance vs. private anxiety over impeachment
In public, Trump world is casting the Democratic impeachment inquiry as more white noise. In private, White House aides and allies say the impeachment momentum is now presenting a serious threat to the rest of President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda, to his negotiating strength with world leaders and to his concentration. The political...
Why Trump will survive even this
Nobody is going to hold Donald Trump accountable for his alleged Ukrainian shenanigans because — as we’ve seen in his career and the first 32 months of his presidency — he’s too good at deflecting investigators, irate Democrats and pesky reporters. To begin with, Trump suffers no shame when confronted with the outrages of his...
Trump tries to make America relevant again at the UN
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s first speech to the United Nations was met with gasps as he threatened to hurt Iran and Venezuela, and then nicknamed North Korea’s leader “Rocket Man.” Trump’s second address elicited outright laughter in the chamber hall when he bragged his administration had accomplished more in two years...
Trump allies jolt into action to deflect Ukraine-whistleblower scandal
WASHINGTON — Here we go again. U.S. President Donald Trump sits at the center of another brewing scandal — this one over his communications with Ukraine’s new president — and his allies are already working to debunk, deflect, deny and ignore. In this case, the allegation involves a whistleblower complaint, which The Wall Street Journal...
Joe Biden calls for release of Trump’s phone call with Ukraine
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday called on President Donald Trump to make public a July phone call at the center of a report that Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to find dirt on Biden’s family. “If these reports are true, then there is truly no bottom to President Trump’s willingness to...
‘Of course I did’: Giuliani acknowledges asking Ukraine to investigate Biden
Rudy Giuliani acknowledged on Thursday that he had asked top Ukrainian officials to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, an admission that comes as Capitol Hill Democrats investigate whether President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer are pressuring Ukraine’s government to dig up dirt on a 2020 election rival. “So you did ask...
EU defense commissioner may face turf wars
The first shots Sylvie Goulard is likely to take will come from the European Union’s closest allies. By putting the former French defense minister in charge of a new directorate general for defense industries and space, incoming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has flagged her ambition for Europe to take more...
Putin’s star is fading
For democracy activists in Russia, the real victory this week isn’t that Vladimir Putin’s party performed so poorly in Sunday’s Moscow city council election. That’s just a consequence of a far more important change in the country: the shattering of a feeling of helplessness in the face of the government’s authority....
