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    House Impeachment Inquiry Report Accuses Trump of Misconduct, Obstruction
    Dec04

    House Impeachment Inquiry Report Accuses Trump of Misconduct, Obstruction

    U.S. lawmakers are formally accusing President Donald Trump of misconduct and obstruction, based on what they say is a months-long effort by the president “to use the powers of his office to solicit foreign interference on his behalf in the 2020 election.”The report, released Tuesday by the House Intelligence Committee—which is controlled by...

    Impeachment Investigators Got Rudy Giuliani’s Phone Records—And They’re Quite Revealing
    Dec04

    Impeachment Investigators Got Rudy Giuliani’s Phone Records—And They’re Quite Revealing

    Rudy Giuliani and one of his indicted Ukrainian associates exchanged a flurry of phone calls and text messages with Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), the top Republican on Congress’ impeachment investigation panel, amid a Giuliani-led effort to dig up dirt on President Donald Trump’s political opponents in Ukraine.The House Intelligence...

    Tucker Carlson: U.S. should back Russia over Ukraine
    Dec04

    Tucker Carlson: U.S. should back Russia over Ukraine

    Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Monday that the U.S. “should probably take the side of Russia,” coming to the defense of the country’s autocratic leader and condemning other American broadcasters for doing the opposite. The conservative commentator and host of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” said during the latest episode...

    Democrat Report: It’s Obvious – and Impeachable – That Trump Extorted Ukraine
    Dec04

    Democrat Report: It’s Obvious – and Impeachable – That Trump Extorted Ukraine

    REUTERSDemocrats on the House intelligence committee concluded that President Trump was “the author of his own impeachment inquiry” by withholding critical political and military support from Ukraine until President Volodymyr Zelensky agreed to announce damaging investigations into Trump’s domestic political enemies. As widely expected, the...

    Inquiry Can’t Penetrate Trump Firewall Around His Order Freezing Ukraine Aid
    Dec04

    Inquiry Can’t Penetrate Trump Firewall Around His Order Freezing Ukraine Aid

    Even as dozens of government officials dished publicly on President Trump’s campaign to extort Ukraine, impeachment investigators could not penetrate one key inner circle: people who were there when Trump ordered that $391 million in military aid be frozen. In fact, as a report released by the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday shows,...

    Schiff Says Still Investigating Whether Pressure Campaign Predated Zelensky
    Dec04

    Schiff Says Still Investigating Whether Pressure Campaign Predated Zelensky

    House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said shortly after the release of the report into President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign that his committee is still investigating whether the situation predated Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Did this scheme begin far earlier than we first understood?” Schiff asked. “Was...

    The House GOP Impeachment Report In Brief: Democrats Are Bad, Trump Is Good
    Dec04

    The House GOP Impeachment Report In Brief: Democrats Are Bad, Trump Is Good

    House Republicans on Monday evening released their impeachment report, dismissing allegations against President Donald Trump as unsubstantiated and politically motivated. “The Democrats’ impeachment inquiry is not the organic outgrowth of serious misconduct; it is an orchestrated campaign to upend our political system,” the...

    What We Learned From The Phone Records Obtained In The Impeachment Probe
    Dec03

    What We Learned From The Phone Records Obtained In The Impeachment Probe

    The House committees leading the impeachment inquiry revealed new details Tuesday about President Trump and his allies’ Ukraine pressure campaign — details that came in the form of phone records obtained by the House. The phone records suggest Rudy Giuliani was in contact with the White House and with officials elsewhere in the...

    It’s Not Us—It’s Him
    Dec03

    It’s Not Us—It’s Him

    Washington is a partisan and notoriously navel-gazing place. Diplomats, academics, and intellectuals often blame foreign policy failures on Presidents of the opposite party rather than on deliberate decisions by American adversaries. As hundreds of thousands of Kurds fled Turkish forces moving into Syria, and Trump’s domestic critics moved...

    Graham Bucks Trump On DNC-Ukraine Conspiracy Theory
    Dec03

    Graham Bucks Trump On DNC-Ukraine Conspiracy Theory

    Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) isn’t on the same page as his fellow Republican senators who are pushing President Trump’s bogus DNC-Ukraine conspiracy theory. When pressed on whether he believes that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election, CNN reported Tuesday afternoon that Graham told reporters that he doubts Ukraine was behind the...