Section: US & Canada
Transcript Shows Trump Asked Ukraine President to Probe Political Foe Biden
Myroslava Gongadze in Washington and Celia Mendoza in New York contributed to this report.NEW YORK/CAPITOL HILL — U.S. President Donald Trump asked Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate if Democratic presidential contender and former Vice President Joe Biden shut down a probe into a Ukrainian company that employed his son,...
The Case for Keeping Impeachment Clean and Simple
Jeet Heer Though Donald Trump has committed many crimes, best keep the focus tightly on the Ukrainian scandal. The post The Case for Keeping Impeachment Clean and Simple appeared first on The Nation. …read more Source:: The...
Trump asked Ukraine’s president to look into investigation of Biden’s son
U.S. President Donald Trump asked Ukraine’s President Vlodymir Zelenskiy for information on Former U.S. Vice President and Democratic foe Joe Biden’s son Hunter during a call in July, a transcript released by the White House on Wednesday says. …read more Source:: Global...
Inside the Call: How Trump Pushed Ukraine to Probe Biden
Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast / Photos GettyPresident Donald Trump asked the leader of Ukraine to investigate his likely 2020 reelection opponent, and offered the assistance of his personal attorney and the attorney general of the United States in doing so.That’s according to a partial transcript of a July call between...
White House releases memo summarizing Trump’s call with Ukraine
WASHINGTON DC — The White House has released a memo summarizing the phone call between President Donald Trump and President Zelensky of Ukraine. Washington plunged into an impeachment crisis on Wednesday, as House Democrats opened an investigation into President Donald Trump’s campaign season dealings with Ukraine. Trump repeatedly prodded...
Whistleblower had ‘political bias’ against President Trump in favor of ‘rival candidate,’ according to intel IG document: report
The White House is preparing to release a document showing that intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson discovered that the whistleblower who lodged a complaint against President Donald Trump had “political bias” in favor of a “rival candidate.”Fox News reported the development late Tuesday, citing senior...
Phone call shows President Donald Trump urged Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Biden’s son
The White House released a transcript Wednesday of a phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that’s at the center of a congressional impeachment investigation. …read more Source:: United Press...
Entangled in US scandal, Ukraine’s leader speaks at the UN
Abruptly cast into the center of a political storm in the United States, Ukraine’s president steered clear of the controversy Wednesday as he made his debut speech on diplomacy’s biggest … Click to Continue » …read more Source:: The Bellingham...
Gaetz Reveals That Trump Invited Him, Other Republicans To Review Call Memo
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, said Wednesday that the President invited him and other Republicans to the White House this morning to jointly review the memo. He initially dodged MSNBC host Hallie Jackson’s follow-up questions about who was in the room and whether Trump only invited Republicans, but did...
Zelensky Asked About Military Aid. Trump Replied: ‘Do Us A Favor.’
The White House’s record of a July 25 phone call shows Trump demanding Ukraine “do us a favor” after the country’s president Volodymyr Zelensky raised the prospect of further military aid from the U.S. According to the records released by the White House on Wednesday, Zelensky thanked the U.S. for supplying Ukraine with Javelin...
