Section: US & Canada
Pence Says State Dept. Officials’ Testimony Shows Trump Must ‘Drain The Swamp’
In the wake of the explosive Tuesday testimony from career diplomat Bill Taylor, the White House continued to rail against House’s impeachment inquiry. Although Vice President Mike Pence has yet to directly comment on Taylor’s bombshell 15-page written statement to Congress — which discussed texts, phone calls, and meetings laying out...
Quinnipiac Poll: Support for impeachment inquiety reaches 55 percent
HAMDEN — Support for the impeachment inquiry charges against President Trump has reached its highest level, according to a new Quinnipiac Poll. The poll determined 55 percent of American voters support the inquiry, while 43 percent disapprove. Last week, 51 percent of voters approved of the inquiry, while 45 percent disapproved. In today’s...
Watch Fox News Personalities Attempt To Explain Away Bill Taylor’s Testimony
It seems Bill O’Reilly took the “No Spin Zone” with him when he departed Fox News. After the bombshell news that emerged from U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor’s testimony, the network’s hosts and personalities took their spin to a new level, peddling absurd conspiracies about the diplomat and declaring reports on his...
Ukrainegate and Political Decay
Watching the Ukraine scandal unfold from Singapore, I feel like the hapless dental patient in an early George Carlin routine who, muzzled in the chair by his busily probing and poking dentist standing over him armed with sharp metal implements and wads of cotton, strains but fails to respond to the dentist’s insistent defense of Richard...
A Symphony of Whistle-Blowers
“Where’s the Whistleblower?” President Donald Trump asked in a tweet this morning. The answer that Trump just as surely doesn’t want to hear, however, is this: It’s not just one whistle-blower anymore.The president now finds himself virtually surrounded by them, as one official after another treks to Capitol Hill to accuse Trump...
Russian Forces Deploy at Syrian Border, Threaten Kurdish Fighters With Being ‘Streamrolled’ by Turkey
(AKCAKALE, Turkey) — Russian military police began patrols on part of the Syrian border Wednesday, quickly moving to implement an accord with Turkey that divvies up control of northeastern Syria. The Kremlin told Kurdish fighters to pull back from the entire frontier or else face being “steamrolled” by Turkish forces. Turkish President Recep...
When We Investigated Benghazi, We Longed for Evidence This Clear
For eight years, House Republicans searched for a “smoking gun” that could unravel the presidency of Barack Obama. They presided over hundreds of oversight hearings, issued more than 100 subpoenas, held the attorney general in contempt of Congress, and even formed a special select committee devoted exclusively to one investigation, on Benghazi....
Defense official arrives for testimony in Trump impeachment inquiry
A top Pentagon official arrived at the Capitol Wednesday to provide closed-door testimony related to President Trump’s contacts with the Ukraine, the latest witness deposition as Democrats charge forward with their impeac… …read more Source:: The...
Senate Dems Submit FOIA Request To DOJ To Get Info On Ukraine, Efforts To Probe Biden
A handful of Senate Democrats used a public records request law to try to compel the Justice Department to give Congress information about its interactions with Ukraine and the White House’s efforts to probe President Trump’s political rival, the Hill was first to report. Sens. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and...
Trump’s willingness to listen to dictators has spiraled into a crisis that could upend his presidency
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban helped fuel Trump’s perception that Ukraine is “poisoned” by corruption. …read more Source:: Business...
