Section: US & Canada
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...
Pompeo in Montenegro, NMacedonia Amid Impeachment Inquiry
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to Montenegro and North Macedonia on Friday to show support for a current NATO ally and a soon-to-be one, as a Ukraine-focused impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump picked up steam. …read more Source:: U.S....
Text messages show discussions about Ukraine among Trump admin officials; IG Michael Atkinson to testify Friday
A lengthy hearing Thursday produced more than two dozen pages of text messages, which showed administration officials discussing President Donald Trump’s controversial dealings with Ukraine. …read more Source:: United Press...
Probe tied to Biden’s son among investigations to be reviewed by Ukraine prosecutor
Ruslan Ryaboshapka, Ukraine’s top prosecutor, said the decision to review the cases was not specifically linked to Hunter Biden or Trump’s allegation. …read more Source:: USA...
Ukraine’s top prosecutor reopens corruption case linked to Joe Biden’s son
Ukraine’s top prosecutor on Friday said he is reopening all of his predecessors’ closed cases, including corruption probes of the gas company where Vice President Joseph R. Biden’s son had a high-paying job on the board of directors. The corruption allegations in Ukraine are at the center of a House … …read more...
Ukraine reviews case into company that employed Biden son
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General says 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 …read more Source:: The Washington...
Ukraine’s new chief prosecutor to ‘audit’ Biden case
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Trump declares ‘case closed’ after text messages reveal officials pressed Ukraine on inquiries
President Trump on Friday insisted there was nothing for Democrats to investigate and that his conversation with Ukraine’s president involved “no pressure,” after House leaders revealed text messages showing Trump adminis… …read more Source:: The...
Explosive Texts Show U.S. Pushed Ukraine To Investigate In Exchange For WH Visit
House Democrats released a series of new, explosive texts on Thursday evening, revealing the extent to which State Department officials worked with Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani to pressure Ukraine into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. The texts indicate that the U.S. ambassador to the EU and the former State...
