Section: US & Canada
The Call Was Coming From Inside the White House
The Russians are “doing it as we sit here, and they expect to do it during the next campaign,” Special Counsel Robert Mueller warned Congress in July, wrapping up his two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. “Many more countries are developing [the] capability to replicate what” the Kremlin did.Aware of these...
Oleg Sentsov: Russian by Blood and Language, Ukrainian in Spirit
Released from a Russian jail in the Arctic in a prisoner swap, the filmmaker vows to fight on against what he calls President Vladimir V. Putin’s “political necrophilia.” …read more Source:: The New York...
Pelosi concerned about whistleblower protection after audio of Trump comments surface
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi voiced concern Friday over President Donald Trump’s comments that suggested retaliation against people who helped an intelligence whistleblower whose complaint about Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s leader is at the centre of the House impeachment probe. …read more Source::...
GOP Rep: Dems ‘Overreacting, But Ukraine Call ‘Probably Worthy Of Investigating’
A House Republican admitted twice during an interview with CNN Friday morning that various aspects of President Trump’s call with Ukraine and the White House’s handling of the situation should “probably” be investigated further. But he was quick to go after Democrats for “overreacting” and also pushed for a similar investigation into...
CNN: WH Admits Ukraine Call Record Was Moved To Special Classified System
The White House acknowledged Friday that Trump administration lawyers moved a record of President Donald Trump’s call with the Ukrainian president to a separate system for classified documents, CNN first reported. An unnamed senior White House official told CNN: “NSC [National Security Council] lawyers directed that the classified document...
In Bid For Biden Dirt, Giuliani Dove Deep Into Ukrainian Political Muck
Like a grotesque buddy comedy, the story of Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump’s pressure campaign to extract beneficial political information from Ukraine is equal parts absurd and horrifying. And the story only gets weirder following a look at the details of the whistleblower complaint released by the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday,...
Now That The Impeachment Probe Is Official, House Dems Must Ramp Up Other Oversight
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. In soliciting election interference from Ukraine’s president, Trump did what had long seemed impossible; he committed an offense that even the most impeachment-phobic lawmakers couldn’t ignore. You don’t have to agree that this behavior is...
El Salvador president: ‘Nobody cares’ about US impeachment inquiry
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele dismissed the U.S. political storm over a whistleblower report alleging President Trump tried to persuade Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, saying “nobody cares” ab… …read more Source:: The...
No Excuses for Hunter Biden
How did this get to be standard practice?The whistle-blower scandal that has prompted the fourth presidential impeachment process in American history has put a spectacle from earlier this decade back on display: the jaw-smacking feast of scavengers who circled around Ukraine as Viktor Yanukovych, a Moscow-linked kleptocrat, was driven from power....
Kremlin says it hopes US wouldn’t release Trump-Putin calls
Russia voiced hope Friday that the U.S. administration wouldn’t publish private conversations between the two nations’ presidents, like it did with Ukraine. …read more Source::...
