Section: US & Canada
IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE? Glenn Beck reads transcript of Trump-Ukraine phone call
An unnamed whistleblower alleged that President Donald Trump threatened to withhold U.S. aid to Ukraine if their president didn’t get his government to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden’s actions regarding his son Hunter Biden’s dealings with a Ukranian natural gas firm called Burisma Holdings. Democrats immediately...
Why The Trump-Zelensky Call Is Just The ‘Tip Of The Iceberg’
The White House’s willingness to release such a damning record of the July 25 call between President Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky suggests its account of the call is just the “tip of the iceberg” in the mushrooming scandal, experts and former officials told TPM. “This is clearly just the tip of the iceberg, but it’s...
Ukraine’s President Says Call With Trump Was ‘Normal’
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, unwillingly entangled in an impeachment inquiry in the United States, said, “I don’t want to be involved in the democratic elections of U.S.A.” …read more Source:: The New York...
DNI Denies Threatening To Resign Over Concern WH Would Have Him Stonewall Congress
This post has been updated. The acting director of national intelligence on Wedensday denied that he threatened to resign over concerns about the White House forcing him to stonewall Congress in upcoming testimony. The denial from Joseph Maguire came within minutes of a report from the Washington Post that he had threatened to resign if the White...
Dem Committee Chairs Slam White House’s ‘Shocking,’ ‘Damning’ Ukraine Memo
The chairs of the House Intelligence, Judiciary, Oversight and Foreign Affairs Committees on Wednesday released a caustic statement on the White House’s memo describing President Donald Trump’s July call with the Ukrainian president. “The transcript is an unambiguous, damning, and shocking abuse of the Office of the Presidency for...
‘I Don’t Want To Be Involved’: Ukrainian Prez Dodges Q’s On Trump’s Pressure For Dirt
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stressed Wednesday that he wanted to stay out of the roiling American political controversy over President Donald Trump’s pressure on him to supply dirt on Joe Biden. Sitting next to Trump at their first in-person meeting, at the United Nations, Zelensky was asked if he felt any pressure from Trump to...
Putin the Not-So-Omnipotent
In August, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin marked 20 years since he was appointed Prime Minister by Boris Yeltsin. Those 20 years have been a slow-motion demonstration of power consolidation, giving rise to the myth of Putin as omnipotent strongman. For two decades, whatever happened in Russia, good or bad—whether it was a war, a terror...
Ukraine’s prosecutor hailed by Trump achieved little
President Donald Trump has accused Joe Biden of shutting down a “very good” Ukrainian prosecutor to stop a corruption investigation, but the prosecutor in question had a less than stellar … Click to Continue » …read more Source:: The Bellingham...
Did Trump Leverage a Missile Sale to Ukraine for Political Gain?
This may not be the first time the Javelin antitank missile has been caught in the political crosshairs. …read more Source:: Foreign...
Ukrainian president on Trump phone call: ‘Nobody pushed me’
Amid the ongoing firestorm of Washington, D.C.’s latest impeachment drama, the president of Ukraine says that he hasn’t felt pressured by U.S. President Donald Trump to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.At an appearance with President Trump in New York on Wednesday, President Zelensky was asked by a reporter whether or not he...
