Section: US & Canada
Mainers Care About Collins’ Impeachment Vote. But Her Reelection Is About More Than That
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. With the impeachment of Donald J. Trump, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine is again in the national spotlight, as she looks like she just might vote to hear witnesses at the Senate trial. That impending Collins vote became especially crucial this morning, when new...
Bolton Leak Sends GOP Scrambling to Justify Quick Trial
Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesAn explosive Sunday night leak on ex-Trump adviser John Bolton’s forthcoming memoir—which reportedly reveals a first-hand account of the president’s desire to withhold aid to Ukraine in exchange for investigations of his political rivals—left Senate Republicans scrambling on Monday to keep their plans for...
Republicans under pressure to call John Bolton to testify as Senate impeachment trial resumes
U.S. President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate came under fresh pressure on Monday to allow witnesses and new documents in his impeachment trial after a news report that a former top aide, John Bolton, has written a book manuscript that undercuts Trump’s versions of events in the Ukraine affair. …read more...
Trump, White House team dismiss Bolton book as ‘false’
WASHINGTON — The Latest on the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump (all times local): 1:25 p.m. Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney is disputing former national security adviser John Bolton’s claims in his forthcoming book. Among the claims is an allegation that President Donald Trump told Bolton he wanted to...
Bolton Book Reportedly Contradicts DOJ Claims About Barr’s Knowledge Of Trump-Zelensky Call
Things just got stickier for Attorney General William Barr. Former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s book manuscript appears to contradict Justice Department assertions about how and when Barr first learned that President Donald Trump mentioned him on a now-infamous phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The New York...
C-SPAN Is So Hot Right Now
People across America turn to it regularly. It’s getting lovingly roasted on late-night television. It’s going viral on YouTube with sizzling footage of Jerry Nadler talking two decades ago.C-SPAN is so hot right now. And that’s a symptom of something gone deeply wrong.The fact that so many people want to watch Congress’s...
LIVE VIDEO: President Trump’s team takes the Senate floor again to fight Democrats’ impeachment charges, could address the recent Bolton accusations
President Donald Trump’s defense team is set to begin day two of its three-day opening arguments at 1 p.m. ET Monday. You can watch a live feed of the proceedings below once it begins. On Saturday, the president’s team began its presentation and immediately launched into its “six key facts” about the Democrats’...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump Misstates the Record on John Bolton
President Donald Trump stated falsely Monday that House Democrats never called his former national security adviser to testify in their impeachment inquiry. Actually they did.Trump’s tweet about John Bolton came as the Senate enters the second week of the impeachment trial and followed a fresh disclosure that Bolton claims Trump told him...
Meghan McCain Defends Mike Pompeo’s NPR Meltdown, Compares Him to Adam Driver
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Trump’s Lawyers Resume Defense in Impeachment Trial
U.S. President Donald Trump’s lawyers resume their impeachment defense Monday, as Democrats renew calls for witnesses in the Senate trial after accounts emerged of Trump telling his then national security adviser John Bolton he wanted to withhold military aid to Ukraine until it launched an investigation of a key Democratic rival.The New...
