Section: US & Canada
NAFTA, Impeachment: A Donald Trump doubleheader
“I want you to do us a favour,” said Donald Trump, and Nancy Pelosi complied on Tuesday, finally releasing the parking brake from a revised North American Free Trade Agreement and giving the president a glut of gloat-able, quotable material to use on the re-election trail about what an Artful Dealer he is. Announcement of the replacement for what...
A Tale of Two Democratic Press Conferences
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...
Finland gets world’s youngest prime minister, a woman age 34
HELSINKI (AP) — Finland became the country with the world’s youngest sitting head of government Tuesday when the Nordic country’s parliament chose a 34-year-old woman with liberal views and a down-to-earth style as prime minister. Lawmakers in the 200-seat Eduskunta voted 99-70 to make Sanna Marin, a Social Democrat who served as...
Trump, Pompeo Meet with Russia’s Lavrov
U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are meeting Tuesday in Washington with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, with the two nuclear powers discussing the possibility of extending their last remaining major arms control deal.The officials, meeting as Democrats unveiled impeachment charges against Trump, also plan to...
Top Ukraine official denies quid pro quo conversation, refuting key impeachment witness testimony
A top aide to Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky refuted a key claim made during last month’s impeachment inquiry hearing by Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, according to Time.The aide, Andriy Yermak, denied that he and Sondland were ever in conversation alone and said Sondland never told him that military aid...
House Democrats Propose to Impeach Trump for Abuse of Power, Obstructing Congress
After a two-month investigation, House Democrats announced Tuesday that they have drafted articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on broad charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The vague “abuse of power” charge follows comes after hours of hearings in which House Democrats used criminal terms such as “bribery” and...
Trump’s Trial Should Put the GOP on the Spot
As the House of Representatives nears a vote on two articles of impeachment, very few people think President Donald Trump’s conduct was “perfect,” as he claims. The partisan divide revolves around whether his wrongdoing rises to the level of an impeachable offense. Democrats believe it does, but Republicans overwhelmingly think it does not....
Barr: ‘I haven’t looked into’ whether Ukraine meddled in 2016 election
Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday distanced himself from a growing narrative among Republicans that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 U.S. election, saying he hadn’t personally delved into the matter.”I am confide… …read more Source:: The...
Speeding Toward Impeachment in the Absence of Facts
The Democrats’ case for impeaching President Donald Trump boils down to this: the accusation that he solicited, demanded, perhaps even coerced a foreign government to help him get reelected. Such behavior, they contend, constitutes an impeachable offense. The most important task for the Senate when it conducts a trial on that article of...
What the Democrats Left Out
Today the House Judiciary Committee announced two articles of impeachment. The first article alleges that President Donald Trump abused his power by asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to publicly announce investigations into one of his political opponents, Joe Biden, and into a “discredited theory” that Ukraine, not Russia, had...
