Section: US & Canada
House lawyer says impeachment probe could go beyond Ukraine
The top House lawyer told a judge on Tuesday that Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into President Trump may go beyond the president’s dealings with Ukraine.House General Counsel Doug Letter told U…. …read more Source:: The...
Impeachment investigators to subpoena Trump diplomat Gordon Sondland after blocked deposition
House Democrats said Tuesday they will issue a subpoena to U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland to testify in Congress and turn over documents related to the impeachment inquiry involving Ukraine. …read more Source:: United Press...
Graham, Giuliani Team Up To Use Senate In Bid To Scramble Ukraine Story
Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) plans to “inquire” into long-debunked and never remotely substantiated allegations that formed the basis of political dirt that President Trump tried to coerce Ukraine into manufacturing. Graham invited Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to testify before the Senate Judiciary...
House Committees Waste No Time Issuing Subpoena To Sondland
A group of House committee chairmen issued a subpoena to Ambassador Gordon Sondland just hours after finding out that he chose not to testify before them, on the White House’s orders. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA), Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Oversight Committee chairman Elijah...
White House Fighting Impeachment by Stalling and Attacking
As House Democrats fire off more subpoenas, the White House has launched a high-stakes strategy to counter the impeachment threat to President Donald Trump: Stall. Obfuscate. Attack. Repeat.One of the administration’s first moves: the State Department on Tuesday barred Gordon Sondland, the U.S. European Union ambassador, from appearing...
Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds spurs the drumbeat to end his presidency
The maelstrom began with a shocking Sunday night communique from the White House: President Donald Trump had given Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a green light to launch a massive invasion of the Kurdish-held territories of northern Syria. U.S. special forces were ordered to pull back from the Turkish-Syrian border and let it happen....
Report: Trump Fixated On Idea Of Making WH Staffers Take Lie Detector Tests
President Donald Trump is reportedly obsessed with the idea of making his own White House aides take polygraph tests in order to root out leakers. Four unnamed former White House officials told Politico on Tuesday that Trump is “constantly” bringing up polygraph tests in his battle to plug leaks amid the fallout of a whistleblower complaint on...
Lindsey Graham Invites Rudy Giuliani to Testify About His Ukraine ‘Concerns’
Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York City, now serves as President Trump’s private attorney. (Photo by Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images) …read more Source:: CNS...
Joe Biden Won’t Be the Last Target
President Trump has now urged both Ukraine and China to launch investigations of the Biden family. More than 60 percent of Americans disapprove of this behavior. But millions of Trump-aligned voters don’t seem to think he did anything wrong. They correctly perceive that Hunter Biden showed poor moral character by accepting a large salary to...
President Trump keeps EU ambassador from testifying in ‘compromised kangaroo court’ impeachment probe
President Donald Trump said that he blocked a U.S. ambassador from testifying to House investigators because doing so would put him in front of a Kangaroo court. Tuesday morning, it was reported that Ambassador Gordon Sondland had been barred from testifying at a scheduled deposition, which was part House Democrats’ impeachment probe of...
