Section: The Guardian (The United Kingdom)
Ex-Ukraine envoy testifies Trump tried to oust her: read her opening statement
Marie Yovanovitch said she was told Trump had lost confidence in her and that there was a ‘concerted campaign’ against herYovanovitch testifies – live updatesThe former US ambassador to Ukraine has testified to impeachment investigators that Donald Trump pressured the state department to oust her from her position, despite a top official in...
Trump’s deal with Erdoğan threatens lives across Europe – and he doesn’t care | Jonathan Freedland
From Ukraine to Syria, the US president’s transactional approach to the world around him poses a real threatDonald Trump is set to face impeachment for a phone call that came to light last month. The crimes he committed in that call were serious and merit the ultimate sanction that can be imposed on a sitting president, namely removal from...
Who is Marie Yovanovitch, diplomat slated to testify on Ukraine and Trump?
Yovanovitch is expected to appear before Congress to give her account on a subject at the centre of impeachment proceedingsFollow the Guardian’s live updates on US politicsBy the time it was clear in November 2016 that Donald Trump had become the 45th president of the United States, it was already morning in Ukraine.A stunned hush fell on...
Democratic 2020 candidates address LGBTQ forum – as it happened
Leading presidential hopefuls speak in Los Angeles while Trump holds rally in MinneapolisSign up for the US briefing and get a new perspective 1.59pm BSTLive political reporting continues in Friday’s blog: Related: Trump impeachment inquiry: ex-Ukraine envoy scheduled to testify – live 5.19am BSTThe LGBT forum has come to a close. After she...
Trump impeachment inquiry: ex-Ukraine envoy scheduled to testify – live
Marie Yovanovitch scheduled to go before House committeesTrump blocked Gordon Sondland from testifying this weekSign up for the US briefing and get a new perspective 2.10pm BSTGordon Sondland, the former US ambassador to the EU who was blocked from testifying in the impeachment inquiry earlier this week, is expected to speak to House committees...
Ask me anything: Ukraine’s president holds 10-hour press conference
Volodymyr Zelenskiy is questioned by journalists on topics including his phone call with Donald TrumpEver since reports of a telephone call with Donald Trump emerged last month, the news has been bad for the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.In the space of a few weeks, he has faced protests over a controversial peace deal in...
Two Giuliani associates charged with campaign finance violations
Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were arrested on charges including conspiracy, making false statements and falsifying recordsUS politics – live updatesTwo associates of Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, have been charged with election finance violations for channeling foreign money into the president’s campaign.Lev Parnas and...
Trump-Ukraine impeachment scandal: timeline of key events
A sequence of events that began with Russia annexing Ukraine picked up pace when Nancy Pelosi announced a formal inquiryNancy Pelosi, the House of Representatives speaker and the most powerful Democrat in Congress, announced an impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump on 24 September, setting off a fast-moving chain of events. Here are the key...
Trump move to block Sondland ‘strong evidence of obstruction’, says Schiff – live
House intelligence chair condemns Trump administration decision to prevent EU ambassador, a key witness, from testifying to CongressSign up for the US briefing and get a new perspective 3.16pm BSTAnd Trump is somehow still talking about Hillary Clinton’s emails, even as his own White House blocks a senior official from testifying for House...
Trump impeachment inquiry: EU ambassador blocked from testifying
Gordon Sondland was due before House DemocratsTrump administration’s move likely to stoke political furyThe US state department has blocked the EU ambassador Gordon Sondland from testifying in private to House Democrats conducting an impeachment inquiry, as was scheduled for Tuesday morning. Related: Trump’s phone call with...
