Section: US & Canada
‘Mutually Assured Destruction’: McConnell, WH Privately At Odds Over Senate Trial
President Trump has publicly and privately offered conflicting signals about what he wants out of a Senate impeachment trial, stating in public that he would be open to something short or long. In private, he has told aides he’d like the ability to call witnesses on his behalf, the Wall Street Journal reported. Senate Majority Leader Mitch...
Giuliani: Trump ‘relied on’ his claims about US diplomat
WASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, says he provided the president with information that the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was impeding investigations that could benefit Trump politically. Within weeks, she was recalled from her post. In an interview with The New York Times, Giuliani portrayed himself as...
How the GOP Bamboozled The New York Times’ Politics Desk
When it comes to impeachment, no one with a brain is disputing the facts of the case: Donald Trump pressured Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate Joe Biden, using the president’s power over American foreign policy to target a political rival and influence the 2020 election. To suggest otherwise is to either knowingly obfuscate...
Rick Gates, former Trump campaign official and Mueller witness, to be sentenced
Neither his lawyers nor federal prosecutors are seeking prison time for Gates, who pleaded guilty in February 2018 to charges relating to lucrative political consulting work he did in Ukraine. …read more Source:: Global...
Giuliani: Trump ‘relied on’ his claims about US diplomat
President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani says he provided the president with information that the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was impeding investigations that could benefit Trump politically …read more Source:: The Boston...
Giuliani: Trump ‘relied on’ his claims about US diplomat
WASHINGTON (AP) – Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, says he provided the president with information that the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was impeding investigations that could benefit Trump politically. Within weeks, she was recalled from her post. In an interview with The New York Times, Giuliani portrayed...
Giuliani says he told Trump ‘a couple times’ that ambassador to Ukraine was blocking investigations
President Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said he told the president “a couple times” that former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch had been blocking investigations Giuliani sought from Kyiv tha… …read more Source:: The...
In Interview With NYT, Giuliani Drags Trump Deeper Into Scheme To Oust Yovanovitch
President Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani hasn’t been shy about his role in informing the President about concerns he had regarding former Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch. But in a new interview with the New York Times, Giuliani outright admits he told Trump that the 33-year veteran of foreign service was getting in the way of his push to...
Second China Aircraft Carrier Enters Service
China’s second aircraft carrier entered service on Tuesday, adding major firepower to its military ambitions as it faces tensions with self-ruled Taiwan as well as the US and regional neighbors around the disputed South China Sea.The commissioning of the warship, named the Shandong, puts China in a small club of nations with multiple...
Former Trump campaign official Rick Gates faces sentencing
WASHINGTON — Former Trump campaign official Rick Gates, who was charged in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, will learn how much his extensive co-operation with the Justice Department has paid off when he is sentenced in Washington’s federal court. Neither his lawyers nor federal prosecutors are seeking prison...
