Section: US & Canada
Peter MacKay’s big day
Welcome to a sneak peek of the Maclean’s Politics Insider newsletter. Sign-up at the bottom of the page to get it delivered straight to your inbox. On Saturday, Peter MacKay officially kickstarted his campaign to be leader of the federal Conservative party. His launch event, in Stellarton, Nova Scotia, in his former riding of Central Nova,...
Bolton Book Reveal Seems To Sway Some GOP Senators On Witnesses
An episode in former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s unpublished manuscript seems to be swaying at least a couple moderate Republicans to call for witnesses’ inclusion in the Senate impeachment trial. Bolton wrote of a meeting with President Donald Trump last August, where the President directly tied the Ukraine financial aid...
Bolton Book Undermines Trump Impeachment Defense
The team around U.S. President Donald Trump is turning against his former national security adviser after John Bolton, in an upcoming book, undercuts one of the key points of the president’s defense in his impeachment trial.A senior legal adviser to the Trump re-election campaign, Jenna Ellis, who is also an attorney to the president,...
‘Fox & Friends’ Does Everything It Can to Defend Trump From Bolton Book Claims
The morning after it was revealed that former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here …read more Source:: The Daily...
Democrats demand Bolton testify in wake of ‘explosive’ details about Trump-Ukraine affair
The stakes over witness testimony at U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial are rising now that a draft of a book from former national security adviser John Bolton appears to undercut a key defence argument: that Trump never conditioned military aid to Ukraine on investigations into his political rival Joe Biden. …read more...
Trump rages after reports that Bolton book claims president tied Ukraine aid to probes
Later Monday morning, Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah told reporters, “I think it’s increasingly likely that other Republicans will join those of us who think we should hear from John Bolton.” …read more Source::...
Romney Says It’s ‘Increasingly Important’ For Senate To Hear From Bolton
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), who is among a handful of Republicans who could cast a deciding vote to hear witnesses in the impeachment trial, said Monday that it’s “increasingly important” for the Senate to hear from John Bolton. Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill, Romney said that he would “make a final decision on witnesses” after hearing...
Trump’s Failed Impeachment Is Still Worth It
Everyone knows President Donald Trump will not be convicted in his impeachment trial. His party controls 53 seats of the Senate, so there is simply no way the requisite two-thirds will vote against him. So is there any point to this whole exercise? Yes, there is. Impeachment is not just about this president; it is about future presidents. If...
Schiff Says GOP Senators Are ‘Now Really Hard-Pressed’ To Reject Bolton Testimony
House impeachment manager Adam Schiff (D-CA) said on Monday morning that Republican senators are in a bind after the New York Times published allegations of former National Security Adviser’s book, which gave a firsthand account of President Donald Trump’s involvement in the pressure campaign on Ukraine. “At the end of the day,...
The Utter Ridiculousness of the U.S. Senate
On the second day of President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, Chief Justice John Roberts told a joke—though not intentionally. Presiding over the trial, the chief justice had seen the House impeachment manager, Representative Jerry Nadler, snipe at the president’s defense team over the falsehoods the president’s...
