Section: US & Canada
Giuliani’s Ukraine gambit at core of whistleblower complaint
…read more Source:: Toronto...
Giuliani’s Ukraine gambit at core of whistleblower complaint
Once ‘America’s mayor,’ Giuliani became a fierce Trump partisan whose Ukraine gambit is at the core of whistleblower complaint …read more Source:: The Boston...
Republican support for impeaching Trump doubled in the past few days amid escalating Ukraine scandal
Morning Consult has released an eye-popping new survey that found 43% of voters think congress should begin impeachment proceedings. …read more Source:: Business...
Ukraine’s President: The Only Person Able to Pressure Me ‘is My Six-Year-Old Son’
Asked by Russian journalists in New York this week whether he had been put under pressure by President Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said as leader of an independent country no-one was able to pressurise him – except his six-year-old son. …read more Source:: CNS...
Joseph Maguire Hearing Shows How Democrats Could Still Blow Donald Trump’s Impeachment
NICHOLAS KAMM/GettyIn the first hearing of the new world we’re in, you would have thought the Democrats’ mission was not to impeach the president but to impeach the witness before them. That would be the acting Director of National Intelligence, Joseph Maguire, a Navy Seal for 34 years and a public servant who’s taken the oath...
Trump impeachment inquiry could be pivotal in Warren-Biden primary fight
Analysis: The former vice president’s name has been at the center of the Ukraine issue. …read more Source::...
When it comes to friends, Donald Trump needs only the bare minimum
Donald Trump needs only 34 friends to save his tangerine neck but his lifeboat is getting leaky. “Cracks emerge among Senate Republicans,” the Washington Post assures its Trump-hating owner and subscribers. “I would not be happy,” a member of the Grand Old Party from Wisconsin says of the latest furor, if in fact the furor is true. Mitt Romney,...
Vermont’s GOP Governor Says He Supports Trump Impeachment Inquiry
For the first time, a Republican leader has expressed support for the House’s impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R), seated in one of the bluest states in the country, said in an emailed statement to TPM on Thursday that the investigation was “appropriate” in light of a whistleblower’s...
North American stock markets subdued despite U.S. impeachment frenzy
TORONTO — North American stock markets were relatively subdued Thursday despite the frenzy taking place in Washington, D.C. over efforts to impeach the U.S. president. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 6.11 points to 16,790.40, breaking a three-day slide. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 79.59 points at 26,891.12....
Lieu (D): Hunter Biden’s Burisma Role Shows ‘No Evidence of Corruption’
Rep. Ted Lieu (D., Calif.) said Wednesday there was “no evidence of corruption” in Hunter Biden receiving $50,000 per month to sit on the board of a Ukrainian gas company while his father was vice president. “The underlying problem here was of course Hunter Biden receiving $50,000 a month from a Ukrainian energy company,”...
