Section: US & Canada
John Bolton Plumbs the Depth of Trump’s Depravity
In June 2019, Donald Trump was desperate for a win—and he was willing to endorse Chinese concentration camps to get it.In the back half of his first term, Trump was feeling pinched. He’d escaped Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation without charges, but a Democratic House was making his life increasingly difficult and he...
John Bolton Shows That All the President’s Men Are Cowards
at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Nominee For Top Pentagon Spot Goes On Tweet-Deleting Binge As Inflammatory Posts Come To Light
Retired Army Brig. Gen. Anthony Tata has hurriedly deleted old tweets, some of which capture him expressing Islamophobic and racist sentiments, as his nomination for a top Pentagon position is considered by the Senate Armed Services Committee. Here are five points on President Trump’s pick for Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, a top...
Bolton’s Bombshell Memoir: Trump Asked China’s President to Help Him Win the Election
Brendan Smialowski/AFP via GettyPresident Trump appealed to China’s President Xi Jinping to at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Ukraine receives $60M worth of military equipment from US
The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv says it has received more than $60 million worth of weapons and other equipment for Ukraine as part of the U.S. security aid program with the country …read more Source:: ABC...
When The Inmates Run The Asylum: Bolton Book Reportedly Details Trump Quids Pro Quo
Major newspapers got ahold of John Bolton’s forthcoming memoir of his time in the White House, publishing details from the book nearly simultaneously on Wednesday afternoon. The Wall Street Journal published a full chapter of the book concerning President Trump’s dealings with China, while the Washington Post and New York Times have...
The US Has Become The World’s Top Exporter Of White Extremism
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. The rise of white supremacy extremism is a global phenomenon and the United States is its chief exporter. While the threat posed by radical right wing ideologues, the milieu most white supremacists inhabit, had been on the rise prior to the Trump administration, it...
$60M in U.S. military aid arrives in Ukraine
Over $60 million in military equipment were handed over to Ukraine, the U.S. Embassy in Kiev announced on Wednesday. …read more Source:: United Press...
Bolton Says Trump Impeachment Inquiry Missed Other Troubling Actions
John R. Bolton, the former national security adviser, says in his new book that the House in its impeachment inquiry should have investigated President Trump not just for pressuring Ukraine to incriminate his domestic foes but for a variety of instances when he sought to intervene in law enforcement matters for political reasons. Mr. Bolton...
The Justice Department Is Trying To Stop the Publication of John Bolton’s White House Tell-All
The Justice Department is suing to try to block John Bolton, former national security adviser, from releasing his White House tell-all The Room Where It Happened. It’s extremely unlikely they’ll stop the book’s release, which is slated for next week, but what they’re really going after is the money Bolton will make off of...
