Section: US & Canada
Republicans Planning Vigorous Defense Against Trump Impeachment
Republican supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump are planning a vigorous defense of him as public congressional impeachment hearings start Wednesday that target his presidency.Trump administration officials are bracing for hours of testimony from two U.S. State Department officials — William Taylor, the current top American diplomat in...
Transcripts reveal bitter fight within NSC over Ukraine, President Trump
by WorldTribune Staff, November 12, 2019 Officials at the National Security Council (NSC), some of them Obama era holdovers, waged an internal war against President Donald Trump and his political appointees, transcripts from Rep. Adam Schiff’s closed-door impeachment inquiry hearings show. Fiona Hill, a Russia specialist brought to the NSC...
Reports: Ciaramella hosted 2016 White House meeting that issued demand to Ukraine
by WorldTribune Staff, November 12, 2019 The so-called Trump-Ukraine “whistleblower,” who many in the media have identified as Eric Ciaramella, hosted a January 2016 White House meeting where Ukrainian officials were told to drop the Burisma-Hunter Biden investigation, reports say. Ciaramella hosted a meeting with Ukrainian diplomat Andrii...
Giuliani Was Close To A Podcast Deal With News Outlet That Spread His Ukraine Conspiracies
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. After John Solomon ran columns in The Hill that touched off a disinformation campaign against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, the publication had discussions with Rudy Giuliani about a...
House drip-bombing of witness testimony softens landing zone for public support
The House Democratic plan to give the Select Committee on Intelligence the lead on both publicly releasing transcripts of depositions taken in private and then calling many of the same witnesses for public testimony on the Ukraine controversy is a… …read more Source:: The...
Republican who aided in Clinton impeachment trial: Trump Ukraine phone call ‘troublesome’
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R), who acted as a prosecutor during former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial, has called President Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelensky “troublesome” but said he… …read more Source:: The...
Mark Sanford suspends 2020 presidential campaign
Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor and congressman who two months ago launched a longshot primary challenge to President Donald Trump, suspended his candidacy Tuesday. “I am suspending my race for the Presidency because impeachment has made my goal of making the debt, deficit and spending issue a part of this presidential debate...
Bolton Privately Throws Trump’s Foreign Policy Decisions Under The Bus
Although former National Security Adviser John Bolton has kept a relatively low profile since his resignation in September, he hasn’t exactly kept his thoughts on President Trump’s foreign policy approach to himself. According to a Tuesday report from NBC News, Bolton aired his suspicions over the motivations behind Trump’s...
The U.S. relationship with Ukraine runs deep. Here’s why.
Ukraine and the United States have a relationship that far predates Trump. …read more Source:: The Washington...
READ: Trump Called Bolton Over CNN Article, Former Volker Aide Testified
The House impeachment inquiry on Monday released a transcript of the testimony of Christopher Anderson, a special adviser for Ukraine negotiations and former aide to then-U.S. special envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker. Catherine Croft, whose testimony transcript was also released Monday, replaced Anderson in that role this summer. Anderson testified...
