Section: US & Canada
Trump meets Russian official as impeachment charges unveiled
WASHINGTON — The Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump on Tuesday was the second for Russia’s foreign minister. The president of Ukraine is still waiting for his first. Trump sat down with Sergey Lavrov at a moment of high drama in Washington — just hours after House Democrats announced articles of impeachment against Trump for...
Stop Overthinking Impeachment Politics
At 9 a.m. on Tuesday morning, House Democrats formally unveiled two articles of impeachment that they would bring against President Donald Trump. The announcement brought the House one step closer to impeaching a president for only the third time in the nation’s history. “Our president holds the ultimate public trust,” Jerry Nadler, the...
Giuliani Has A New Conspiracy Theory To Mainline Into GOP Bloodstream
The seed of another wacky conspiracy theory is sprouting in Ukraine. And this time, it purports to implicate both President Barack Obama and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA). According to a Tuesday report in the Washington Post, Trump asked Giuliani to brief Trump and GOP Senators about what he was told while in Kyiv last week. The Ukrainians who met with...
Clinton Prosecutor Sees Weak Impeachment Case Against Trump
House Democrats, legal analysts, and pundits suggested in recent weeks that President Donald Trump committed various impeachable crimes in his July phone call to Ukraine’s president. But on Tuesday, the charge House Democrats came up with was a broad “abuse of power” claim, alleging that Trump solicited foreign interference in the 2020...
President Trump Met With Russian Foreign Minister Hours After Articles of Impeachment Were Introduced
(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump met Tuesday with the Russian foreign minister at the White House just hours after articles of impeachment were unveiled against him and a day after a Justice Department watchdog report declared the FBI was justified in opening an investigation into ties between Moscow and Trump’s 2016 campaign. Sergey...
MSNBC Analyst: Trump Impeachment Trial Will Be Like ‘O.J. on Steroids’
MSNBC political analyst Michael Steele predicted Tuesday that there would be massive public interest in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, referring to it as the O.J. Simpson murder case “on steroids.” The former Republican National Committee chairman said the attention to Trump’s case in the U.S. Senate would be...
Trump says impeachment articles ‘very weak’
President Trump on Tuesday said bipartisan approval of his North American trade deal is the “silver lining” to a morning that began with Democrats unveiling articles of impeachment against him. Mr. Trump said articles that accuse him of abusing his power in dealing with Ukraine are “very weak” and that … …read...
Impeachment and the Spending Power Revisited
Earlier today, House Democrats released two draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. In September, I wrote two posts explaining why, if Trump withheld congressionally appropriated military aid from Ukraine in order to pressure the Ukrainian president into investigating supposed...
‘It’s been hysterical to see the media screaming’: Ted Cruz says MSM ‘panicking’ over Democrats’ failing impeachment in exclusive interview with Glenn Beck
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joined Glenn Beck on the radio program Tuesday to discuss the two articles of impeachment House Democrats announced today accusing President Donald Trump of “abuse of power” and “obstruction of Congress.”Cruz described the articles of impeachment as “an admission of failure on the part of the...
Jim Jordan, Who Has Berated Impeachment Witnesses, Isn’t Sweating His Legacy
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) can’t be bothered with his reputation as he continues to boisterously defend President Trump amid the ongoing impeachment inquiry. According to a HuffPost report Tuesday, Jordan expressed his lack of concern regarding how he will be remembered in light of the impeachment proceedings. “I don’t care how I’m...
