Section: US & Canada
Nine Things to Know About Trump Impeachment Controversy
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday announced a “formal impeachment inquiry” into President Donald Trump, escalating a long-running clash between Democratic lawmakers and the White House over alleged presidential malfeasance. The announcement followed disclosures that Trump in a July 25 call to Ukraine’s president asked him to investigate...
Trump To Zelenskiy: I Really Hope You Get Together With Putin, ‘Solve Your Problem’
U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy have met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. In the September 25 meeting, Trump said European countries should “help Ukraine much more than they are doing.” Trump also said he hoped that Zelenskiy and Russian President Vladimir Putin could...
The Atlantic Politics Daily: Favor Town
Comments or questions? Send us an email anytime. Were you forwarded this email? Sign yourself up here. We appreciate your continued support for our journalism. Today in PoliticsUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the UNGA. (Lucas Jackson / Reuters)Impeachment? Ukraine? UNGA? Who is where, and what did they just say? Here’s a...
How Trump’s Ukraine call could violate campaign finance laws
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AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s thin rationale on Ukraine aid
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A Defense Department letter appears to conflict with Trump’s assessment that Ukraine wasn’t doing enough to fight corruption
“If there’s corruption and we’re paying lots of money to a country, we don’t want a country that we’re giving massive aid to,” Trump said. …read more Source:: Business...
Democrats call Trump’s call with Ukraine’s leader “damning”
A whistleblower complaint that includes a call between the president and Ukraine’s leader was delivered to members of Congress. Top Democrats are now discussing whether to pursue a narrow impeachment process. Nancy Cordes reports. …read more Source::...
Congress given whistleblower complaint
Lawmakers have read what’s in a whistleblower complaint that includes a call between President Trump and Ukraine’s leader. Democrats who saw the complaint called it “damning.” But Republicans say it won’t hurt the president. Weijia Jiang has the latest. …read more Source::...
A Breakdown of Trump’s Attempts at Damage Control Over Whistleblower Complaint
Jonathan Ernst/ReutersSince news broke Friday of a at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump Recalls Ukraine’s Miss Universe But…
AP FACT CHECK: Trump recalls Ukraine’s Miss Universe from his pageant days but there wasn’t one. …read more Source:: U.S....
