Section: US & Canada
Nunes files defamation suit against CNN over Ukraine story
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) filed a defamation suit against CNN on Tuesday over a story reporting that the Republican congressman had traveled to Vienna to meet with foreign officials and discuss finding dirt on former Vi… …read more Source:: The...
House Impeachment Inquiry Report Accuses Trump of Misconduct, Obstruction
U.S. lawmakers are formally accusing President Donald Trump of misconduct and obstruction, based on what they say is a months-long effort by the president “to use the powers of his office to solicit foreign interference on his behalf in the 2020 election.”The report, released Tuesday by the House Intelligence Committee—which is controlled by...
Impeachment Investigators Got Rudy Giuliani’s Phone Records—And They’re Quite Revealing
Rudy Giuliani and one of his indicted Ukrainian associates exchanged a flurry of phone calls and text messages with Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), the top Republican on Congress’ impeachment investigation panel, amid a Giuliani-led effort to dig up dirt on President Donald Trump’s political opponents in Ukraine.The House Intelligence...
Tucker Carlson: U.S. should back Russia over Ukraine
Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Monday that the U.S. “should probably take the side of Russia,” coming to the defense of the country’s autocratic leader and condemning other American broadcasters for doing the opposite. The conservative commentator and host of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” said during the latest episode...
Democrat Report: It’s Obvious – and Impeachable – That Trump Extorted Ukraine
REUTERSDemocrats on the House intelligence committee concluded that President Trump was “the author of his own impeachment inquiry” by withholding critical political and military support from Ukraine until President Volodymyr Zelensky agreed to announce damaging investigations into Trump’s domestic political enemies. As widely expected, the...
Inquiry Can’t Penetrate Trump Firewall Around His Order Freezing Ukraine Aid
Even as dozens of government officials dished publicly on President Trump’s campaign to extort Ukraine, impeachment investigators could not penetrate one key inner circle: people who were there when Trump ordered that $391 million in military aid be frozen. In fact, as a report released by the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday shows,...
Schiff Says Still Investigating Whether Pressure Campaign Predated Zelensky
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said shortly after the release of the report into President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign that his committee is still investigating whether the situation predated Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Did this scheme begin far earlier than we first understood?” Schiff asked. “Was...
The House GOP Impeachment Report In Brief: Democrats Are Bad, Trump Is Good
House Republicans on Monday evening released their impeachment report, dismissing allegations against President Donald Trump as unsubstantiated and politically motivated. “The Democrats’ impeachment inquiry is not the organic outgrowth of serious misconduct; it is an orchestrated campaign to upend our political system,” the...
House report outlines evidence of Trump impeachment
The House released a sweeping impeachment report Tuesday outlining evidence of what it calls President Donald Trump’s wrongdoing toward Ukraine, findings that will serve as the foundation for debate over whether the 45th president should be removed from office. …read more Source:: CTV...
What We Learned From The Phone Records Obtained In The Impeachment Probe
The House committees leading the impeachment inquiry revealed new details Tuesday about President Trump and his allies’ Ukraine pressure campaign — details that came in the form of phone records obtained by the House. The phone records suggest Rudy Giuliani was in contact with the White House and with officials elsewhere in the...
