Section: US & Canada
Former CIA Director: We worried arming Ukraine would hand technology to Russian spies
Under Obama the military opposed giving Javelin missiles to Ukraine because of fear Russia would get access to sensitive tech, said ex-CIA chief Brennan.” …read more Source::...
Trump Administration Withholding Over $100 Million of Military Aid to Lebanon
(WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration is withholding more than $100 million in U.S. military assistance to Lebanon that has been approved by Congress and is favored by Trump’s national security team, an assertion of executive control of foreign aid that is similar to the delay in support for Ukraine at the center of the impeachment...
Trump Says Pompeo Would Easily Win Senate Seat in Kansas
President Donald Trump appeared to open the door on Friday for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to run for an open Senate seat in his home state of Kansas.”He came to me and said ‘Look, I’d rather stay where I am,’ but he loves Kansas, he loves the people of Kansas,” Trump told “Fox & Friends.”...
US House Vote on Trump Impeachment Likely by Year’s End
U.S. House Democrats’ public impeachment inquiry hearings provided new details on allegations President Donald Trump pushed Ukraine’s president to investigate domestic political rival Joe Biden and his son. But as lawmakers draft the articles of impeachment for an expected vote before the end of the year, Republicans and Democrats...
The Evidence That Trump Abused His Powers Is Clear and Convincing
As someone who has found Donald Trump’s presidency to be equal parts hilarious and horrifying but is still not convinced that whoever the Democrats end up nominating would be better, everything considered, on the issues I care about, I have mixed feelings about the impeachment inquiry. On one hand, I tend to agree with Gene Healy that the...
Biden: ‘Even The Ukrainians Wouldn’t Yield’ To Trump Like Lindsey Graham Did
Former Vice President Joe Biden ripped into Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Friday after the senator requested documents on Biden, Graham’s old friend, to pursue a pet conspiracy theory of President Donald Trump’s. Graham on Thursday requested materials from the State Department related to Biden and Burisma, the natural gas company that...
How Rudy Giuliani Opened the Door to the Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry
The former New York City mayor and prosecutor has been sniffing out corruption, real or not, for many years. …read more Source:: Foreign...
Despite testimony, Trump promotes debunked Ukraine conspiracy theory
Trump called in to “Fox & Friends” and said he was trying to root out corruption in the Eastern European nation when he withheld aid over the summer. …read more Source:: Global...
Why Impeachment Is Failing—and Trump May Win in 2020
The evidence that Trump abused his office in Ukraine is overwhelming. But a flailing Democratic Party shows he is lucky in his adversaries. …read more Source:: Foreign...
Trump denigrates US diplomats, pushes conspiracy theories
WASHINGTON (AP) – Offering his own take on five long days of public hearings, President Donald Trump brushed off the impeachment inquiry as “total nonsense” on Friday and bad-mouthed a number of the U.S. diplomats who testified to Congress about his Ukraine pressure campaign. In one breath, Trump said House … …read more Source::...
