Section: US & Canada
Trump Says He Would Have ‘No Problem’ Letting Giuliani Testify On Ukraine
President Donald Trump on Sunday morning said he would be fine with allowing his personal attorney testify on his attempts to get the Ukrainian government to investigate Trump’s 2020 Democratic rival, Joe Biden. “I would have no problem with it,” Trump told reporters. “Rudy [Giuliani] is a very straight shooter and Rudy wants to see the...
Trump Says He Did Nothing Wrong in Call with Ukrainian Leader
U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday he did nothing wrong in a telephone conversation with the new president of Ukraine amid news report that Trump allegedly urged him to investigate the son of former vice president and 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden.Speaking to reporters, Trump described his phone call with President Volodymyr...
Democratic Sen. Murphy calls on intelligence whistleblower to come before Congress
As Democrats investigate President Trump’s alleged pressure on Ukraine, Sen. Chris Murphy says whistleblower needs to come forward. …read more Source::...
Pompeo: ‘It wouldn’t be appropriate’ to release transcript of Trump conversation with Ukrainian president
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday that “it wouldn’t be appropriate” to release a transcript of President Trump’s call with his Ukrainian counterpart that is reportedly at the center of a whistleblower’s compla… …read more Source:: The...
Mnuchin on Trump’s call with Ukraine president: ‘Things are being implied that don’t exist’
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said on Sunday that allegations that President Trump elicited dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden, a 2020 White House hopeful, during a phone call with Ukraine’s leader are merely spec… …read more Source:: The...
Giuliani, Fox’s Roberts clash on appropriateness of Ukraine contacts
President Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy, Giuliani sparred with “Fox News Sunday” guest host John Roberts Sunday on the appropriateness of asking Ukrainian officials to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden…. …read more Source:: The...
Adam Schiff: Donald Trump withholding Ukraine aid for Joe Biden dirt likely impeachable
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff on Sunday said if President Trump withheld military aid to compel Ukraine to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, then impeachment “may be the only remedy that is coequal to the evil that conduct represents.” “We may very well have … …read more...
Donald Trump: Ukraine call ‘largely congratulatory’
President Trump said Sunday his July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was “largely congratulatory,” pushing back at reports he pressed the new leader to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joseph R. Biden. “The conversation was absolutely perfect,” Mr. Trump told White House reporters as he departed for...
Review: ‘This Is Not Propaganda’ by Peter Pomerantsev
I really wanted to like Peter Pomerantsev’s new book, This Is Not Propaganda. His columns in the LRB, the Guardian, and the American Interest (where I was once a staff writer) are almost always incisive and absorbing. And his first book, Nothing Is True and Everything is Possible, established him as a clearheaded capturer of the...
Judicial Watch: Documents Reveal Extensive Relationship Between Dossier Author Steele and Top Obama State Department Officials
(Washington, DC)—Judicial Watch and The Daily Caller News Foundation today released 146 pages of State Department documents revealing that former British spy and dossier author Christopher Steele had an extensive and close working relationship dating back to May of 2014 with high-ranking Obama State Department officials. The documents obtained by...
