Section: US & Canada
Pence aide denies discussion of link in Ukraine aid holdup
A top aide to Vice President Mike Pence says a conversation described by EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland about a link between military aid for Ukraine and investigations ‘never happened’ …read more Source:: The Boston...
Pence aide denies discussion of link in Ukraine aid holdup
WASHINGTON (AP) – A top aide to Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday that a conversation described by EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland about a link between military aid for Ukraine and investigations “never happened.” Sondland testified Wednesday that he spoke with Pence before a Sept. 1 meeting with Ukrainian officials … …read...
Nunes Shouts About Tired Conspiracies, Ignores Sondland’s Damning Testimony
Stating he wanted to “get back to the facts of the matter here,” House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes (R-CA) used the beginning of his questioning time Wednesday to quiz Gordon Sondland on various Republican conspiracy theories, remarkably ignoring the very damning testimony Sondland had given minutes earlier. Despite...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump distances himself from Sondland
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump sought to defend against accusations that he pushed Ukraine’s president for a political “favor” by making a dubious claim that he had little involvement with the U.S. ambassador testifying in House impeachment hearings. Trump distanced himself Wednesday from Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador...
Sondland: Trump Conditioned Ukraine Aid on Kyiv Opening Political Investigations
U.S. diplomat Gordon Sondland emphatically told the impeachment inquiry targeting President Donald Trump on Wednesday that despite the president’s denial, there was a conditional deal with Ukraine in recent months, that Kyiv would not get the military aid it wanted unless it opened investigations to benefit Trump politically.Sondland, the...
Alleged whistleblower was friends with current Schiff staffer while both were in the Obama White House: report
CIA analyst Eric Ciaramella, alleged to be the whistleblower whose complaint launched an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s actions toward Ukraine, was friends with a current member of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff’s staff while they were both working in the White House during the Obama...
Ukraine Wants To Probe the Company That Paid Hunter Biden. But It’s ‘Too Sensitive’
One of the troubling questions at the center of the impeachment inquiry, at least for Republicans, has been the work that Hunter Biden did for Burisma, one of Ukraine’s largest gas companies, while his father was serving as Vice President. But the intensity of interest in Washington is only making it more difficult to resolve the mystery....
Putin Says US ‘Political Dramas’ Diverting Focus From Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he’s pleased that the “political battles” in Washington have put on the back-burner accusations that Russia interfered in U.S. elections.”Thank God,” he told an economic forum in the Russian capital on Wednesday, “no one is accusing us of interfering in the U.S. elections...
Pence’s office denies he spoke with Sondland about investigations
Vice President Mike Pence’s office pushed back on Sondland’s testimony Wednesday that he raised concerns that aid for Ukraine had become tied to Trump’s desire for investigations.”The Vice President never had a con… …read more Source:: The...
‘Everyone was in the loop.’ Sondland names names at impeachment hearing
Gordon Sondland, ambassador to the European Union, testified at an impeachment inquiry Wednesday that a host of top U.S. officials were privy to efforts to pressure the Ukraine to investigate … Click to Continue » …read more Source:: The Bellingham...
