Section: US & Canada
Donald Trump made an offer that Ukraine couldn’t refuse
This week, a lot of people have been comparing President Donald Trump’s just-revealed behaviour to that of a cliché movie mobster shaking down a shopkeeper. On Wednesday morning, the White House released a memorandum recounting the president’s July 25 call with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. That’s the call behind...
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...
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...
DEEP STATE? Evidence emerges showing DEMOCRATS have been pushing Ukraine to meddle with US elections since at least 2016 — and still are
Democratic politicians and mainstream media are doing their best to convince Americans that the recently declassified whistle-blower report “removed all doubt” that President Donald Trump pressured the president of Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden in an effort to “solicit interference from a foreign country...
Hunter Biden Had ‘No Substantial Ukraine Experience,’ New Yorker Writer Says
New Yorker writer Adam Entous told CNN’s Poppy Harlow that Hunter Biden had “no substantial Ukraine experience,” despite being on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma. “He really had no substantial Ukraine experience, no Ukraine experience, and no substantial experience in the energy sector at that stage...
