Section: US & Canada
Pelosi: Trump Clearly ‘Used His Office For His Personal Gain’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) criticized how President Trump is handling the impeachment inquiry during a press conference Thursday. After stating that “none of us came here to impeach a President,” Pelosi railed against Trump for using his office “for his own personal gain” and said that he “undermined the national security.” “The evidence...
Impeachment: Hill says Ukraine election meddling a ‘fictional narrative’ distracting from Russia
A former White House Russia analyst sternly warned Republican lawmakers — and implicitly President Donald Trump — to quit pushing a “fictional” narrative that Ukraine, not Russia interfered in the 2016 election as they defend Trump in the impeachment inquiry. In Thursday testimony, Fiona Hill, a career expert on Russia, and David Holmes, a State...
The First Impeachment Witness to Go After Republicans
Through four long days of impeachment hearings, witness after witness had sat passively by as Republican lawmakers responded to their detailed testimony by arguing that President Donald Trump had a legitimate reason to be suspicious of Ukraine because he believed the country “tried to take me down” in 2016.That silence from the witness table...
Ukrainian Pols are Playing Games With Impeachment Info
MOSCOW—Just as the U.S. Congress and the world prepared to hear bombshell testimony in the impeachment hearings this week, headlines in the at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Watch live: Ex-adviser Fiona Hill says GOP Ukraine narrative ‘harmful fiction’
A former White House expert on Russia and Europe testified in Congress Thursday that a Republican-backed narrative that says Ukraine — not Russia — may have interfered in the 2016 U.S. election is false and harmful. …read more Source:: United Press...
House Republicans Are Spreading ‘Fictional Narrative’ on Ukrainian Election Interference, Says Former Top White House Adviser
Fiona Hill, a former top White House expert on Russia, told congressional investigators today that allegations of Ukrainian election interference are not based in fact. By continuing to promote this theory, she argued, Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are emboldening Russian aggression. “Based on questions and statements I...
Former NSC Official Takes the Stand in Impeachment Probe as Republicans Go on the Defensive
Fiona Hill has denounced the “fictional narrative” that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 elections, capping off a dramatic week of public impeachment hearings in Washington. …read more Source:: Foreign...
What We’re Talking About When We Talk About Military Aid to Ukraine
When Adam Schiff asked Bill Taylor, the first witness in the House’s public impeachment hearings, to explain to Americans why U.S. security assistance to Ukraine matters for their own security, America’s top diplomat in Kyiv went big. Really big.“It affects the world that we live in, that our children will grow up in and our...
Fiona Hill Ties Trump’s Ukraine Pressure Back to Russiagate
Throughout the first week of the House of Representatives’ impeachment hearings, the witnesses, most of them serving career U.S. diplomats, have attempted agnosticism on the merits of impeaching President Trump and sidestep often rancorous Republican questioning. But the White House’s former top Russia official made it clear on...
Trump Didn’t “Give An — Expletive — About Ukraine,” Impeachment Hearing Told
The U.S. Embassy political counselor in Kyiv, David Holmes, recounted how the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, told him President Donald Trump’s only interest in Ukraine was “big stuff… like the Biden investigation.” He was speaking at an impeachment hearing in Washington on November 21. …read...
