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,...
Did Lindsey Graham Read The Same Ukraine Call Notes That We Did?
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told reporters on Wednesday following the White House’s release of its version of President Trump’s calling with Ukraine, telling reporters he had no issue with the phone call. Graham said his only concern about the call was focused on whether Trump leveraged U.S. military aid to Ukraine to try to pressure...
Barr Denies Involvement In Trump’s Ukraine Smear Campaign Against Biden
Attorney General Bill Barr denied speaking to President Donald Trump about Trump’s effort to get dirt on Joe Biden in Ukraine, the Justice Department asserted in a statement Wednesday. The statement came minutes after the White House’s memorandum of Trump’s call with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky showed Trump...
Biden ‘Doesn’t Have The Answers’ to Ukraine Questions, CBS Contributor Says
Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden walked out of a press conference without taking questions about his son’s business dealings in Ukraine because he “doesn’t have the answers,” a CBS News contributor said Tuesday. “He walked out before taking any questions,” Molly Hooper, a Capitol Hill reporter for the Hill,...
Trump: Media Built It Up To Be ‘Call From Hell,’ But Actually Proved How ‘Nice’ I Am
President Donald Trump responded to a question about the White House memo of his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Wednesday, saying it was built up to be the “call from hell.” “There was no pressure, the way you had that built up, that call, it was going to be the call from hell,” he said to assembled reporters. “It turned out to...
The Ukraine Memo: What We Know, What We Don’t
The Ukraine memo: What we know, what we don’t. …read more Source:: U.S....
Dems take up impeachment drive, say Trump betrayed his oath
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has launched a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, yielding to mounting pressure from fellow Democrats and plunging a deeply divided nation into an election year clash between Congress and the commander in chief. The probe focuses partly on whether Trump abused his presidential powers...
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...
