Section: US & Canada
Booker calls on TV stations to not air Trump ad attacking Biden over Ukraine
Sen. Cory Booker’s (D-N.J.) presidential campaign is calling on TV stations not to air a reelection ad from President Trump that attacks former Vice President Joe Biden’s role in the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor, call… …read more Source:: The...
READ: Volker’s opening statement to Congress in Ukraine investigation
President Trump’s former envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker, said that he was unaware of efforts by the president or his officials to press Ukraine to investigate allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden.Read… …read more Source:: The...
GOP senator says he confronted Trump over Ukraine in August
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said he confronted President Trump over aid to Ukraine in August and that the president denied tying that assistance to assurances from Kiev that it would investigate former Vice President Joe Bi… …read more Source:: The...
Volker defended Biden in statement to congressional panels
Kurt Volker, the former State Department special envoy to Ukraine, testified to Congress that he was not involved in or aware of any effort to press Ukraine to investigate allegations against former Vice Preside… …read more Source:: The...
Trump told U.S. envoy that Ukraine was full of ‘terrible people’ who ‘tried to take me down’
Volker’s opening statement to lawmakers offers a remarkable account of the tightrope that Volker walked in dealing with the president and Ukraine. …read more Source:: USA...
GOP Sen.: US Official Told Me In August That Ukraine Aide Was Tied To Push For 2016 Probe
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said Friday that in August, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union told the senator that military aide for Ukraine was linked To Trump’s push for Ukraine to investigate the origins of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, the Wall Street Journal reported. Johnson spoke to the ambassador, Gordon Sondland,...
Ex-British Spy’s Obama State Department Contacts Avoid Scrutiny
Officials in the Obama State Department in 2016 actively worked with a British intelligence operative, Christopher Steele, to disseminate and investigate allegations against Donald Trump and his presidential campaign. That operation bears at least some similarity to a saga unfolding in the Trump State Department involving Rudy Giuliani, the Trump...
White House Prepares Formal Objection to Impeachment Probe
President Donald Trump said Friday the White House is preparing a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi formally objecting to the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry without an official vote. It’s expected to say the administration won’t cooperate with the probe without that vote — but he also said he believes it will pass.Trump...
The kitchen’s on fire, and Scheer won’t grab the fire extinguisher
The Conservative Party of Canada has painted itself into a corner on the issue of climate change. Were the issue not quite so pressing, and the injury not so entirely self-inflicted, one could almost feel sorry for the party. Here they are, hoping to form the government in a country where the majority of people recognize climate change as the...
How Republicans Learned to Tolerate Foreign Election Interference
When then-candidate Donald Trump urged the Russian government to find Hillary Clinton’s missing emails, in 2016, his own running mate Mike Pence turned on him, warning the Kremlin of “serious consequences” if Russian hackers had interfered in the election. The leader of Trump’s party in the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, advised...
