Section: US & Canada
Trump Denies Withholding Ukraine Aid In Exchange For Biden Probe, Undermining Giuliani
President Donald Trump denied Monday that he withheld $250 million in aid for Ukraine as leverage to force Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to churn up dirt on Hunter Biden and, by extension, former Vice President Joe Biden. “I did not make a statement that you have to do this or I won’t give you aid,” Trump said, according to pool...
U.S. Soldier Discussed Plans to Bomb News Network, Kill Beto O’Rourke: Feds
Larry W. Smith/GettyA U.S. Army soldier has been charged with distribution of information related to explosives and weapons of mass destruction after FBI agents allegedly uncovered chats about his plans to carry out terrorist attacks in the U.S. and to travel to Ukraine to fight with extremist right-wing militias. Federal prosecutors in Kansas...
Fox’s Judge Napolitano: Trump’s ‘Act of Corruption’ With Ukraine Is ‘Most Serious Charge’ He’s Faced Yet
Fox News senior judicial analyst at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here …read more Source:: The Daily...
US Soldier Allegedly Spoke Of Bombing ‘Major News Network,’ Shared Bombmaking Info
A U.S. soldier was charged Monday for distributing information about bomb-making. He also allegedly expressed an interest in traveling to Ukraine to fight with the far-right nationalist group Azov Battalion. Jarret William Smith, 24, was arrested on Saturday, ABC News first reported. According to court documents, Smith reportedly talked with a...
Trump defends call with Ukraine president: ‘It’s very important to talk about corruption’
President Donald Trump said Monday that “honesty” was his reason for discussing suspected corruption involving former Vice President Joe Biden, Biden’s son Hunter Biden, and a Ukrainian national gas company that employed the latter on its board on a July phone call with the president of Ukraine.What’s the background?Hunter...
Pence Gave Ukraine the Message Too
I mentioned below that the key thing about this latest and most egregious Trump scandal is that his senior team was clearly in on it, aware of it, participated in it. One key person here is Vice President Mike Pence. Earlier this month Pence flew to Poland to fill in for President Trump in meetings with European leaders on the 80th anniversary of...
Trump Dismisses Impeachment Talk
U.S. President Donald Trump has dismissed any talk about impeachment by some Democrats over reports that he tried to pressure Ukraine’s president to investigate leading Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.Trump told reporters as he arrived at the United Nations that he is not taking such threats “at all seriously.” He...
Former GOP Gov. Bill Weld, who is trying to primary Trump, suggests the president could be executed for treason
Former Gov. Bill Weld (R-Mass.), a long shot Republican candidate attempting to primary President Donald Trump, told the hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that he thought Trump was guilty of treason and could be executed for it.What did he say?”Talk about pressuring a foreign country to interfere with and control a U.S....
MSNBC Contributor: Supporting Sanders Over Warren May Be ‘Sexism’
MSNBC contributor and Swing Left adviser Emily Tisch Sussman said supporting Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) over Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) for the Democratic presidential nomination might be “showing your sexism.” Sussman told MSNBC host Craig Melvin on Monday she overheard what she thought was “an interesting...
Democratic congressman wants answers on Joe Biden’s discussions about son’s business dealings
A Democratic House member said Monday that he wants “an explanation” on former Vice President Joe Biden’s dubious claim that he never discussed his son Hunter BIden’s business dealings in the Ukraine.Hunter Biden’s ties to Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma — which employed him as a board member — is at the center...
