Section: US & Canada
Lithuanians Head to Polls to Elect ‘Iron Lady’ Successor
Lithuanians started voting in a tightly contested presidential election Sunday to replace outgoing Dalia Grybauskaite, the Baltic nation’s “Iron Lady” who was one of the European Union’s most outspoken critics of Russia. Still very popular, Grybauskaite, 63, is not eligible to run after two terms. But the top three candidates vying to...
Trump lawyer Giuliani abandons controversial trip to Ukraine
Democrats denounced a plan by U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal attorney to push Ukraine to open investigations that he hopes could benefit Trump politically, saying it was an overt attempt to recruit foreign help to influence a U.S. election. …read more Source: CTV...
Trump lawyer Giuliani spars with Sen. Murphy before cancelling Ukraine trip
NEW YORK — Democrats denounced a plan by President Donald Trump’s personal attorney to push Ukraine to open investigations that he hopes could benefit Trump politically, saying it was an overt attempt to recruit foreign help to influence a U.S. election. But lawyer Rudy Giuliani has scrapped plans to visit Ukraine, citing concerns about who...
Ukrainians Slam Rudy Giuliani’s ‘Shameful Play’ to Meddle in Their Politics
Drew AngererMOSCOW—Democracy-minded Ukrainians, of whom there are many, learned with grim bemusement this week that Donald Trump’s eccentric lawyer, at The Daily Beast. …read more Source: The Daily...
Movie-Prop Cash Is Fooling Cashiers
The Joker torching a mountain of cash in The Dark Knight. Walter White toting around his 55-gallon-drum nest eggs on Breaking Bad. The bags of $100 bills that Jason Bateman’s character launders on Ozark. Each scene was shot with prop money—phony bills that look real on-screen, but up close have certain glaringly obvious tweaks. Where an...
Democrat Calls For Probe Into Giuliani’s Actions In Ukraine
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) raised alarm over Rudy Giuliani’s actions on behalf of President Trump in Ukraine on Friday evening and called for an investigation. Murphy wrote to the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which he sits on, and said he was “alarmed” and “deeply concerned” by Giuliani’s intentions....
Rudy Giuliani cancels Ukraine trip, says he would have had to meet ‘enemies of the president’
Lawyer Rudy Giuliani has scrapped plans to visit Ukraine, citing concerns about who he would be dealing with there. …read more Source: Global...
Trump’s interest stirring Ukraine investigations sows confusion in Kiev
Comments by Giuliani stoke concern among Ukrainian President-elect Zelensky’s allies. …read more Source: The Washington...
Now Guiliani’s Not Going To Ukraine, Says Whole Thing Was A ‘Set Up’
The President’s personal lawyer reversed course on Friday evening and decided to not take a trip to Ukraine, where he intended to request the government launch investigations that would be politically useful to President Trump. “I will step back and just watch it unfold,” he told Fox News on Friday evening after declaring he had cancelled...
Rudes, Arch-Criminal
Rudy Giuliani has now canceled his trip to Ukraine in which he planned to pressure the new government to launch investigations into Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. But this is irrelevant. It’s not 1810. Giuliani doesn’t need a personal visit to plot his schemes. We have phones, video conferencing, private jet transnational...
