Section: US & Canada
Ukraine reviews cases on owner of firm that hired Biden son
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General says his office is reviewing several cases related to the owner of a gas company where former Vice President Joe Biden’s son sat on the board, as part of a review of all the criminal cases closed by his predecessors …read more Source:: The Washington...
WaPo Gives Schiff Four Pinocchios for Whistleblower Claim
Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler gave Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) four Pinocchios for falsely claiming the House Intelligence Committee had not heard from the Ukraine whistleblower. During a September interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Schiff said the committee, which he chairs, had not spoken directly with the whistleblower...
This Is Normal! Trump Claims Foreign Political Pressure Campaigns Happen ‘All The Time’
In light of news that State Department officials actively pressed Ukraine to announce a probe into former Vice President Joe Biden in exchange for a White House visit, President Trump is, once again, proclaiming his innocence. After House Democrats released explosive text messages that show two U.S. ambassadors helped draft the exact language of...
Folks, This is Absolutely Critical
It’s hard to keep track of the gross abuse of power. But here’s the critical thing to keep an eye on through this. We know about election interference of targeting the Biden’s. What was even clearer in those texts is demand that Ukraine “get to the bottom of” collusion between the DNC and Ukraine in the 2016 election. That is...
Text messages show Ukraine discussions among Trump officials
The inspector general of the U.S. intelligence community will testify before the House intelligence committee Friday, following a 10-hour closed-door hearing Thursday that produced more than two dozen pages of text messages showing administration officials discussing President Donald Trump’s controversial dealings with Ukraine. …read...
White House Will Refuse To Cooperate With Impeachment Probe
The White House plans to formally tell House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as early as Friday that it will not cooperate with the House’s impeachment probe, the Associated Press reported. The White House Counsel’s Office is preparing a letter to send Pelosi arguing that because the impeachment inquiry was not opened with a full House...
Ukraine Reviews Closed Case Into Gas Company That Employed Hunter Biden
(ZHYTOMYR, Ukraine) — Ukraine’s Prosecutor General said on Friday that his office is reviewing all the cases that were closed by his predecessors, including several related to the owner of a gas company where former Vice President Joe Biden’s son sat on the board. Ruslan Ryaboshapka’s comments came amid an impeachment inquiry...
Rick Perry Eyes Exit Just As He Gets Roped Into Ukraine Scandal
Another one bites the dust. In the wake of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) sending a letter to Energy Secretary Rick Perry about his U.S.-Ukrainian dealings, a resignation is reportedly in the cards for the Trump administration official who has largely flown under the radar prior to the scandal. According to reports from Politico and the New York Times...
The Coveted, Overpriced Missile at the Heart of Trump’s Ukraine Scandal
However narrow the managers may try to make it, the impeachment inquiry that has finally engulfed the presidency of Donald Trump after nearly three years of malfeasance is a scandalous goulash: a bald attempt to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 presidential election, to strongarm a foreign leader into cooperation, to retain power at all...
Treason (!), Sedition, and Trump Derangement Syndrome
I understand that actually taking seriously what the President of the United States says and writes brings with it the risk of being accused, at least by the more vigorous of Trump’s defenders among our readers, of having succumbed to Trump Derangement Syndrome. (More about that below.) But he is, as his stoutest defenders continually...
