Section: US & Canada
Trump instructed administration to withhold military aid for Ukraine days before call with president: report
President Trump instructed acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to place a hold on nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine shortly before a phone call in which he allegedly tried to persuade the nation’s… …read more Source:: The...
Trump and House Democrats Battle Over Whistleblower Complaint
A whistleblower complaint by an anonymous U.S. intelligence official has provoked a spiraling political standoff between the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats seeking to investigate the alleged wrongdoing. The complaint reportedly involves an allegation that Trump in a July 25 phone call to Ukrainian...
More Democrats threaten impeachment over Trump’s dealings with Ukraine
A slow but steady trickle of House Democrats are lining up this week to support the impeachment of President Trump if the White House refuses to cooperate in the investigation of Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.Conne… …read more Source:: The...
Seven Freshman Democrats pen op-ed urging Congress to impeach Trump if new allegations are true
A group of seven first-term House Democrats on Monday penned a joint op-ed urging Congress to use all of its powers to determine whether new allegations regarding President Trump’s interactions with the leader of Ukraine… …read more Source:: The...
Not Just Ukraine: Rudy and Bannon Try a Whole New Way to Slime Biden
Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/GettyThe president’s personal attorney has convinced more Democrats to open an impeachment inquiry into his client. But Rudy Giuliani is already hinting at a new front in his questionable offensive against former Vice President Joe Biden’s son. And it’s a charge that Trump allies...
Congress wants answers on Trump’s dig for Biden dirt
Congressional Democrats on Monday pressed their demands for full disclosure of a whistleblower’s complaint about President Donald Trump and intensified calls for impeachment. Trump insisted anew he did nothing wrong in his conversation with Ukraine’s leader that is at the centre of the complaint. …read more Source:: CTV...
GOP Senators Can’t Hear You Talking About Trump and Ukraine
Chip Somodevilla/GettyIt’s become a familiar dance in the halls of the Republican-controlled Senate: When there are uncomfortable questions about President Trump, GOP senators dodge, deflect, or deny there’s a story.That approach—typically at work when Trump tweets out tariff threats or fires an administration official—is being tested...
Whistleblower fuels impeachment talk
Two swing-district lawmakers in the Twin Cities suburbs on Monday became the first Democrats to link President Trump’s impeachment to the escalating Ukraine controversy.Allegations that Trump sought to pressure Ukr… …read more Source:: The...
Fox News legal analyst says Trump call with Ukraine leader could be ‘more serious’ than what Mueller ‘dragged up’
Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano said Monday that the allegation that President Trump pressured the leader of Ukraine to investigate the son of 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden could be the most “s… …read more Source:: The...
Donald Trump flips Ukraine furor on Joe Biden, son Hunter Biden
President Trump accused Democratic presidential front-runner Joseph R. Biden on Monday of enabling his son to profit from foreign connections when he was vice president, while the Biden campaign countered that Mr. Trump is trying to distract from his efforts to pressure Ukraine for dirt on the 2020 rival he … …read more Source:: The...
