Section: US & Canada
The impeachment process: How it all works
Calls to impeach President Donald Trump began among some Democrats almost the day he was inaugurated. They ballooned after former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report to Congress about interactions between the Trump campaign and Russia and, separately, Trump’s efforts to squash the investigation, potentially obstructing justice....
Tony Blinken On Trump-Ukraine Call: ‘This Is Worse Than We Feared’
Tony Blinken, a former national security official and current senior adviser to Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden’s campaign, weighed in on the political firestorm over President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine into manufacturing political dirt on Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden on Wednesday. Shortly after the White House...
Trump Grasps At Fox News’ Dismissal Of White House’s Ukraine Call Memo
As the explosive Ukraine scandal continues to unfold, President Donald Trump found refuge in his favorite cable news network on Wednesday to downplay the White House’s memo on Trump’s call with Ukraine. After the White House released its notes on Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that revealed Trump...
Congress Should Not Be Satisfied With Ukraine Call Transcript, Given the Trump White House’s History of Fiddling With Records
One of the dumbest news cycles of summer 2019 is somehow actually relevant to Wednesday’s release of a transcript of a phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. More on the transcript in a moment. First, let’s recall the multi-day fiasco that was the approach of Hurricane Dorian during the...
Tlaib Accuses Vaping Witness of Being ‘Conspiracy Theorist’
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) accused a vaping advocate of being a “conspiracy theorist” after seeing her wink at a lawmaker on Tuesday. “You call yourself a converted conservative and reformed Marxist. Are you a conspiracy theorist?” Tlaib asked Vicki Porter, who testified to the House Oversight Committee about her...
Amash: Trump’s Ukraine call a ‘devastating indictment of the president’
Rep. Justin Amash (Mich.), an Independent who formally left the Republican Party earlier this year, said Wednesday that a memo of President Trump’s conversation with the leader of Ukraine was a “devastating indictment” of… …read more Source:: The...
Romney On Ukraine Call Memo: ‘This Remains Extremely Troubling’
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) remains a lone voice in his party, calling the White House memo of President Donald Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “deeply troubling” on Wednesday. While speaking at The Atlantic Festival in Washington, Romney added that while he’s not as focused on the “quid pro quo” nature of the...
Nadler: Barr Must Recuse, Trump ‘Dragged The Attorney General Into This Mess’
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NJ) said Wednesday that Attorney General Bill Barr should recuse himself in light of the revelation Wednesday that Trump told the Ukrainian president he should contact Barr to discuss dirt on Joe Biden. During a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25, the memorandum of...
Trump’s Incriminating Conversation With the Ukrainian President
As the White House prepared to release a summary of President Donald Trump’s July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, administration sources told reporters there wouldn’t be much there.They were wrong.The summary, released Wednesday morning, is a wild look into the president’s mindset and approach to his job. It...
Transcript shows Trump offered U.S. assistance to Ukraine for Biden investigation
A partial transcript of the call released by the White House shows that Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work with the U.S. attorney general on an investigation of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and Biden’s son. …read more Source:: Toronto...
