Section: US & Canada
Giuliani Confirms That At Least Some Docs State IG Gave Congress Came From Him
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani confirmed Wednesday night that at least some of the documents in the packet of “disinformation” that State Department Inspector General Steve Linick handed over to Congress in an “urgent” briefing came from him. According to CNN, the packet includes fodder for the fabricated Joe and Hunter Biden smears, as well as...
Prison Bars Haven’t Kept Manafort And Giuliani Apart
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has kept up a steady flow of communication with the imprisoned Paul Manafort through the former Trump campaign chairman’s lawyer, seeking to further the rightwing talking point that Ukrainians interfered in 2016 to help Hillary Clinton. A happy byproduct of this narrative would be muddying the charges against...
Biden to Trump: ‘I’m not going anywhere’
White House hopeful Joe Biden on Wednesday hit back at President Trump at a rally in Nevada, telling his supporters he’s “not going anywhere” in a fiery rebuke of Trump’s attacks on his dealings with Ukraine.”Let m… …read more Source:: The...
Russians Praise Trump, Taunt Zelensky, as Ukraine Signs On to Peace-Plan Proposal
VIA REUTERSExistential dread washed over the face of the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, as he sat next to the American president during their joint press conference on the sidelines of the UN. Donald Trump, as the face of Ukraine’s most powerful ally in its struggle against Russian aggression, was telling him: “I really hope you...
The Republican Party’s Deafening Silence
The Republican Party is speechless. A week after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced the beginning of an impeachment investigation, Trump’s usual allies in the administration, in Congress, in the media—have no defense for his actions. Instead, as Politico reported on Wednesday morning, “GOP lawmakers and operatives are concerned at...
Democrats Must Act Now to Deter Foreign Interference in the 2020 Election
Democrats face a national-security problem without parallel in the annals of American democracy. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has made clear not only that he will remain passive in the face of foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. election—a threat his current and former directors of national intelligence have called the most...
A reformist prosecutor in Ukraine comes up against Trump-Biden fight
The dedicated anticorruption campaigner meets his test as Ukraine tries to avoid entanglement in U.S. politics. …read more Source:: The Washington...
Pompeo meets Pope Francis as impeachment roils Washington
ROME (AP) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met privately with Pope Francis and visited his ancestral home in southern Italy on Thursday as the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump roiled Washington. On a day when a former special envoy for Ukraine was due to be interviewed in … …read more Source:: The Washington...
How the NRA Sold Out America
Last Friday, the Senate Finance Committee dropped what would have been—in any other timeline—a bombshell that might have dominated headlines and talking heads for days: A 77-page report, issued by Senator Ron Wyden, detailing the means and machinations with which a number of Russian figures cozied up to the National Rifle Association (NRA) since...
All the President’s Conspiracy Theories
If Donald Trump and his supporters weren’t so fond of conspiracy theories, the Ukraine scandal would never have unfolded as it did. In a now infamous July 25 phone call, Trump pushed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to look for evidence that the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike had hidden the Democratic National Committee’s server...
