Section: US & Canada
READ: House Panels Demand Docs Over $400 Mil Ukraine Aid Delay
The House Budget and Appropriations Committees sent a demand to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget on Friday for reams of documents related to the Trump administration’s delay in disbursing $400 million in aid to Ukraine. The document demand comes as House Democrats enter into an impeachment inquiry against President...
Tulsi Gabbard supports impeachment inquiry days after saying there wasn’t a ‘compelling’ case
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) spent most of this week dismissing the Democratic Party’s efforts to impeach President Donald Trump as being unnecessarily divisive, saying that there wasn’t a “compelling” case for impeachment. Friday, however, the presidential candidate changed her mind, saying in a press release that it is...
House Democrats demand White House turn over docs on Ukraine aid
The chairs of two House panels are demanding that the White House turn over documents and information about military aid withheld from Ukraine amid scrutiny over President Trump’s interactions with the country.Hous… …read more Source:: The...
Newly elected head of the House Freedom Caucus just introduced a measure to censure Adam Schiff
The elected next leader of the Freedom Caucus has introduced a motion to censure Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) for his conduct during a hearing with the Director of National Intelligence regarding a phone call that President Donald Trump make to the president of Ukraine.What is this about?Yesterday during the testimony of Director of National...
The Problem With Impeachment
Photo by Michael Vadon (Flickr) Impeaching Donald Trump would do nothing to halt the deep decay that has beset the American republic. It would not magically restore democratic institutions. It would not return us to the rule of law. It would not curb the predatory appetites of the big banks, the war industry and corporations. It would not get...
Joy Behar: Republicans Should Have Sympathy For Biden, Not Attack His Son!
Read more at NewsBusters here The View host Joy Behar made a weird argument on Friday’s show about the whole Hunter Biden, Ukraine controversy. The liberal host suggested that because the 2020 presidential candidate suffered a family tragedy decades ago, the veteran politician should be immune from any Republican attacks against his...
Chris Wallace Calls Trumpworld’s Spin On Whistleblower ‘Astonishing’
Fox News host Chris Wallace didn’t hold back on airing his thoughts Friday after the release of the whistleblower complaint by the House Intelligence Committee. When asked during a Fox News segment Friday if his thoughts had changed in response to the whistleblower complaint release Thursday, Wallace said that “it’s changed quite a...
Revenge of the Intelligence Nerds
On his first day in office, in January 2017, Donald Trump paid a visit to the CIA. He stood before its Memorial Wall, which then had 117 stars commemorating those who lost their lives in the line of duty. “I want to just let you know, I am so behind you,” Trump told the crowd of intelligence officials who’d gathered to hear him speak. “And...
Media: Save Us Bolton, You’re Our Only Hope
As Democrats move forward with an impeachment inquiry, the media is hoping that former national security adviser John Bolton testifies against President Donald Trump. Cable news hosts and pundits are eager for Bolton to turn on his former boss. C Recent Stories in Politics Media: Save Us Bolton, You’re Our Only Hope Hunter Biden Had ‘No...
Gabbard Now Supports Impeachment To Avoid US Becoming ‘Banana Republic’
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) has changed her position on impeachment, falling in step with most of her 2020 hopeful peers and saying Friday that it would set a “dangerous precedent” to let President Donald Trump go unpunished. “Up to this point, I have been opposed to pursuing impeachment because it will further divide our already badly divided...
