Section: CTV (Canada)
Trump confronts limits of his impeachment defence strategy
As the probe hits the one-month mark, U.S. President Donald Trump and his aides have largely ignored the details of the Ukraine allegations against him. Instead, they’re loudly objecting to the House Democrats’ investigation process, using that as justification for ordering administration officials not to co-operate …read more...
Trump confronts the limits of impeachment defence strategy
As the probe hits the one-month mark, U.S. President Donald Trump and his aides have largely ignored the details of the Ukraine allegations against him. Instead, they’re loudly objecting to the House Democrats’ investigation process, using that as justification for ordering administration officials not to co-operate …read more...
Ukrainian leader felt Trump pressure before taking office
More than two months before the phone call that launched the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, Ukraine’s newly elected leader was already worried about pressure from the U.S. president to investigate his Democratic rival Joe Biden. …read more Source:: CTV...
Trump viewed Ukraine as adversary, not ally, witnesses say
According to people familiar with testimony in the House impeachment investigation, U.S. President Donald Trump sees the Eastern European ally Ukraine, not Russia, as responsible for the interference in the 2016 election that was investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller. …read more Source:: CTV...
U.S. diplomat in Ukraine text messages to testify to Congress
Members of U.S. Congress are set to hear directly from a U.S. diplomat who ran the embassy in Ukraine — he is scheduled to testify behind closed doors in an inquiry trying to determine if Trump committed impeachable offences by pressing the president of Ukraine into pursuing information that could help his campaign as he withheld military...
Mulvaney getting second-guessed on defence of Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump’s acting chief of staff stirred up a tempest by acknowledging that the administration had held up aid to Ukraine in part to prod that country to investigate Democrats and the 2016 elections. Then Mulvaney went on television Sunday to defend his boss in effusive terms — and ended up making a new problematic...
Mulvaney’s missteps draw scrutiny from Trump allies
U.S. President Donald Trump’s acting chief of staff stirred up a tempest by acknowledging that the administration had held up aid to Ukraine in part to prod that country to investigate Democrats and the 2016 elections. Then Mulvaney went on television Sunday to defend his boss in effusive terms — and ended up making a new problematic...
U.S. impeachment inquiry puts spotlight on Perry, who shunned it
Energy Secretary Rick Perry was one of the survivors in U.S. President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, avoiding scandals that have taken out higher-profile figures, but his announcement that he’s quitting by the year’s end has brought his work in Ukraine to the attention to the impeachment investigation. …read more Source:: CTV...
E.U. ambassador prepared to deny he was warned about Ukraine work: AP
Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, is prepared to tell lawmakers this week that top White House national security officials never personally raised concerns with him about his dealings with Rudy Giuliani in Ukraine, a person familiar with his account told The Associated Press on Tuesday. …read more Source:: CTV...
Former WH aide: John Bolton called Giuliani a ‘hand grenade’
Former national security adviser John Bolton was so alarmed by Rudy Giuliani’s back-channel activities in Ukraine that he described U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer as a “hand grenade who is going to blow everybody up,” according to a former White House aide. …read more Source:: CTV...
