Section: US & Canada
In Impeachment Surprise, Taylor Unveils New Evidence Directly Implicating Trump
The acting ambassador to Ukraine dropped a bombshell Wednesday, testifying to a previously unknown conversation that President Trump had that directly implicated him in the pressure campaign against Ukraine. The explosive new claim did not come up in Taylor’s closed-door testimony — the ambassador said he’d only heard a...
WH Claims Trump Isn’t Watching Public Impeachment Testimonies As He RTs Clips Of Hearing
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham claimed on Wednesday that President Donald Trump is not watching the public hearing currently underway in the House impeachment investigation. “He’s in the Oval in meetings,” Grisham told CNN. “Not watching. He’s working.” Yet Trump has already retweeted several clips of the hearing since...
READ: William Taylor’s opening statement at impeachment hearing
William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine, testified to Congress on Wednesday, expressing concerns about the U.S. withholding military assistance to Ukraine last summer as well as President Trump pressing the Ukrai… …read more Source:: The...
Aides Advise Trump Not To Fire Mulvaney As Public Impeachment Hearings Begin
As the impeachment inquiry enters its public phase, aides to President Trump have advised him to hold off on firing his embattled acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. According to a Washington Post report Wednesday, three sources familiar with the discussions said that senior advisers have warned Trump that removing Mulvaney amid a high-stakes...
Impeachment Is the Left’s Sad Final Attempt to Beat Trump
If you are paying attention to the Washington circus that is the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s handling of the much maligned Ukraine call, this is what real collusion looks like: a media largely committed to advancing the goal of Democrats to severely damage or remove him from office, a series of at-first private...
WaPo: Giuliani Pals Personally Told Trump Ukraine Ambassador Was Against Him Last Year
Rudy Giuliani’s indicted buddies delivered a message directly to President Donald Trump last year that the ambassador to Ukraine at the time was against him, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Trump responded by suggesting that then-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch should be fired, unnamed sources familiar with one of the Giuliani...
Taylor testifies Trump cared more about ‘investigations’ than Ukraine
William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, on Wednesday said that U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland told a member of his staff in July that President Trump cared more about an investigation into… …read more Source:: The...
Ukraine Moves To Lift Ban On Farmland Sale
Ukraine’s parliament has passed a bill in its first reading to remove a ban on the sale of farmland, a move supported by the country’s foreign backers. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
READ: Opening Statement Of Deputy Assistant Secretary Of State George Kent
Kent said Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s lawyer, and his associates led a smear campaign against Marie Yovanovitch, the then-U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.(Image credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) …read more Source::...
Diplomat Taylor reveals that staffer overheard Trump on call discuss ‘the investigations’ in Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) – Diplomat Taylor reveals that staffer overheard Trump on call discuss ‘the investigations’ in Ukraine. …read more Source:: The Washington...
