Section: US & Canada
Trump Is Surrounded
It is a strategy that President Donald Trump has deployed throughout his life, as instinctive and natural to him as the act of breathing: Villainize whoever is blocking his way.Distasteful as Trump’s taunts might be, ridiculing adversaries has been the blunt-force instrument that propelled his political rise, with the president turning...
Yawn: Trumpworld Rallies Around Calling Impeachment Hearing A Snoozefest
White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway joined the chorus of Trump administration officials and allies who found the first public impeachment hearing to be boring. During an interview on “Fox & Friends” Thursday morning, co-host Brian Kilmeade pressed Conway about whether the White House has an “offensive push” to avoid impeachment or to “just...
The Most Pivotal Moment In The Trump Ukraine Scandal Timeline
It all comes down to April. President Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and his two now-indicted cronies had thought they had struck a deal with Kyiv for political dirt. But everything changed in a matter of days. Whatever deal the group thought they had struck fell apart with the election of President Volodymyr Zelensky, forcing Trump and Giuliani to launch...
Why Are We in Ukraine?
Stephen F. Cohen Historically and even today, Russia has much in common with Ukraine—the United States, almost nothing. The post Why Are We in Ukraine? appeared first on The Nation. …read more Source:: The...
MH17 probe reveals close ties between Russia, Ukraine rebels
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An international team of investigators piecing together a criminal case in the July 2014 shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine said Thursday that evidence suggests links between Russia and separatists in the region were closer than previously believed. The Joint Investigation …...
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez says Democrats have to ‘run with’ Ukraine allegations to unify the House, prevent ‘disastrous’ 2020 outcome
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday that Democrats have to move forward with an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump and his actions regarding Ukraine in order to unify the party.That perspective from the freshman congresswoman fits with a criticism from the president’s allies that...
There’s Never Going to Be a Clear Standard for Impeachable Offenses
It’s tempting to think of the impeachable offense as a static construct. Either the President did a bad thing, or he didn’t. Either it was sufficiently bad as to be impeachable, or it is not.But this can’t be correct, either as a matter of common sense or as a matter of constitutional law. As House Democrats roll forward with...
MH17 Investigators Release Phone Intercepts with Links to Russia
The Dutch-led team investigating the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine has released new phone intercepts that it said includes recordings of Russian military commanders speaking with separatist fighters and a Kremlin official.The intercepts were released on November 14 as part of a new push by the Dutch team, known as the...
Graham Says He Won’t Accept Senate Trial Until Whistleblower Is Exposed
Within hours of acting ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor’s public testimony Wednesday, during which he dropped an explosive new claim about a previously unknown conversation that President Trump had with EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) declared that he’s still on a crusade to expose the identity of the...
Investigators: Phone calls show Russia involvement before 2014 MH17 crash in Ukraine
Investigators examining the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on Thursday released audio recordings of phone calls between Ukrainian separatists and top Russian officials. …read more Source:: United Press...
