Section: US & Canada
Trump Calls It a ‘Scandal’ That Democrat Foe Helped Shape Whistleblower Complaint
President Donald Trump called the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee a “fraud” while offering rare praise of The New York Times in a contentious White House press conference in which he assailed the news media for dishonesty as Democrats’ impeachment inquiry advances. Minutes before the president spoke Wednesday, the Times...
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...
Explainer: What Is The Steinmeier Formula — And Did Zelenskiy Just Capitulate To Moscow?
Ukraine’s president has thrown Kyiv’s support behind the so-called Steinmeier Formula, saying agreement on the blueprint paves the way for top-level talks to end the war between Kyiv’s forces and Russia-backed separatists in the Donbas. But what is the formula, and do Moscow and Kyiv really agree? …read more Source:: Radio...
Book Alleging Biden Corruption in Ukraine Lifted Passages From Wikipedia
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastA book that has fueled corruption allegations at the center of an unfolding impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump appears to have lifted portions of text from news articles and Wikipedia pages without proper citation or attribution.The Daily Beast found more than a dozen...
