Section: US & Canada
Fox News legal analyst says quid pro quo is ‘clearly impeachable’: Trump requested ‘criminal’ act
Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano on Tuesday pushed back against the argument that President Trump using a quid pro quo in his dealings with Ukraine did not qualify as an impeachable offense.”Oh,… …read more Source:: The...
4 Things to Expect as the Trump Impeachment Inquiry Goes Public
After a month of closed hearings, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is slated to hold public impeachment hearings Wednesday and Friday. The committee, under Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., will hear testimony from three witnesses regarding President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
Risks for all sides as Trump impeachment hearings swing open
The closed doors of the Trump impeachment investigation are swinging wide open. When the gavel strikes at the start of the House hearing Wednesday morning, America and the rest of the world will have the chance to see and hear for themselves for the first time about U.S. President Donald Trump’s actions toward Ukraine and consider whether...
House Democrats Take Trump Impeachment Inquiry Public
House Democrats launch a new phase in the impeachment investigation into US President Donald Trump Wednesday with a round of public testimony from current and former administration officials. Those witnesses will provide a detailed picture of Trump’s alleged request to Ukraine to investigate his potential Democratic rival in the 2020...
Bill Taylor Op-Ed Subtweets Entire Trump Ukraine Scandal
Acting Ukraine Ambassador Bill Taylor has emerged as a key witness in the House’s impeachment inquiry. But this week, he made quite a statement in the court of public opinion, in the form of a strikingly topical op-ed. Taylor has testified, and is expected to do so again publicly on Wednesday, that the Trump administration used irregular...
NYT: Trump Has Talked About Firing IG Who Reported Whistleblower Complaint
President Donald Trump has reportedly discussed with aides whether to fire Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson for disloyalty. The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Trump has been privately complaining about Atkinson after he reported to Congress the whistleblower complaint flagging Trump’s infamous July call...
Inauguration galas, an intimate dinner, and a White House party: Trump’s 10 interactions with indicted Giuliani associates
President Donald Trump has had at least 10 encounters with Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, the indicted associates of Rudy Giuliani the President has adamantly claimed not to know. Prosecutors allege Parnas and his business partner Fruman illegally funded Republican politicians and campaigns with money from foreign nationals in attempts to buy...
Laughter As Medicine
As we survey open societies across the world since the heady days of 1989-91, we cannot help but observe—as Freedom House annually documents—not an increase but rather a steady decline in the number of democracies in the world. Once open societies across the democratic world—some so-called new, others old established ones— are one by one turning...
How Rudy Giuliani And His Indicted Buddies Stormed The ’18 Midterms
Airpods. MAGA. The Lubavitcher Rebbe. Rudy Giuliani. It might not be what you expect, but for Giuliani and his two Soviet-born buddies, that’s what peak political performance looks like. Giuliani barnstormed the country in the week before the 2018 midterms, supporting various GOP candidates. And he brought two trusted political advisors in...
Trump snaps at fake news media: ‘Be Quiet! Be Quiet!’
On Friday, President Trump spoke to the media before his departure on Marine One. In this clip, Trump addressed questions related to the public hearings and testimony on the impeachment inquiry scheduled this week.”I just told them, ‘I’ve got to come over and see the fake news.’ Let’s go. What do you have,...
