Section: US & Canada
Biden’s Top 2020 Democratic Rivals Avoid Rush to Defend Him
Democrats are united against President Donald Trump for asking Ukrainians a top domestic political rival, but that doesn’t mean they’re all defending his target Joe Biden. …read more Source:: U.S....
Clinton Still Complaining About 2016 Loss
Two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton described President Donald Trump as a “corrupt human tornado” and an “illegitimate president” in an interview with CBS News. Clinton called President Trump a “direct threat” to the rule of law and complained about losing to him in 2016. “It was like...
Burr: Senate Intel Will ‘Get To The Bottom’ Of Trump Ukraine Allegations
The bipartisan leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday that they will continue looking into allegations made by an intelligence community whistleblower, who has accused President Trump of abusing his office and the White House of covering it up. Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) describe a closed door briefing the...
How a D.C. News Site Amplified Dubious Ukraine Claims
Inside the story of how the Hill become part of the Trump whistleblower scandal. …read more Source:: Foreign...
Fact check: Trump’s false claim that Democrats threatened Ukraine aid
Trump and Rep. Devin Nunes have said Democrats did the exact same thing Trump is accused of doing: pressuring Ukraine to investigate political rivals. …read more Source::...
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,...
Why Ukraine’s Zelensky isn’t taking more heat for his fawning call with Trump
“It’s a kind of embarrassment in the diplomatic sphere, but then again, if you engage with Trump you have to expect embarrassment,” one analyst said. …read more Source:: The Washington...
