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    Republicans Prepare to Give Hunter Biden the Benghazi Treatment
    Nov25

    Republicans Prepare to Give Hunter Biden the Benghazi Treatment

    At the end of two weeks of impeachment hearings, President Donald Trump’s defenders find themselves at a crossroads. What the president stands accused of doing is, as The Atlantic’s David Frum notes, “simple and straightforward,” summarizable in “a few sentences of plain English.” The attempts of Republicans on the House Intelligence...

    The Bigger the Checks, the Worse the Diplomacy
    Nov25

    The Bigger the Checks, the Worse the Diplomacy

    No other developed, democratic country—and perhaps no other country in the world—would entrust any part of its foreign policy to someone like Gordon Sondland. A wealthy West Coast hotel owner, Sondland donated $1 million to President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee and was rewarded with an appointment as the U.S. ambassador to the...

    Hello, John Bolton? This Is History Calling
    Nov25

    Hello, John Bolton? This Is History Calling

    Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyIs former National Security Adviser John Bolton going to sell it, or give it away? (It, of course, being his bird’s-eye view of the president putting his own interest, in getting an advantage in the 2020 election, over the interests of his country.) “Will he or won’t he?” is the drama that...

    Ukrainian Soccer Association Seeks Probe Into Millions Of Allegedly Embezzled UEFA Funds
    Nov25

    Ukrainian Soccer Association Seeks Probe Into Millions Of Allegedly Embezzled UEFA Funds

    Ukraine soccer’s governing body, the Ukrainian Association of Football (UAF), has called on law enforcement agencies to investigate its former president, who is now a lawmaker, on suspicion of embezzling up to 380 million euros ($418 million). …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    A White House review unveiled efforts to justify Trump’s Ukraine-aid decision, sources say
    Nov25

    A White House review unveiled efforts to justify Trump’s Ukraine-aid decision, sources say

    …read more Source:: Pittsburgh...

    AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s portrait pique and other distortions
    Nov25

    AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s portrait pique and other distortions

    WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump’s latest reasons for firing Marie Yovanovitch as ambassador to Ukraine: She was an “Obama person” who refused to hang Trump’s portrait in the U.S. Embassy. That’s false on both counts. Trump’s pique about not having his picture displayed in a timely way – actually...

    New documents show Pompeo’s contacts with Giuliani amid the Ukraine affair
    Nov25

    New documents show Pompeo’s contacts with Giuliani amid the Ukraine affair

    …read more Source:: Pittsburgh...

    Giuliani associate prepared to testify Nunes aides scrapped Ukraine trip to avoid alerting Schiff
    Nov25

    Giuliani associate prepared to testify Nunes aides scrapped Ukraine trip to avoid alerting Schiff

    An associate to President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani is prepared to testify that aides to Rep. Devin Nunes (D-Calif.) dropped a planned trip to Ukraine to obtain dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden (D) in order to a… …read more Source:: The...

    Devin Nunes denies that he met with Ukraine’s ex-top prosecutor to get Biden dirt
    Nov25

    Devin Nunes denies that he met with Ukraine’s ex-top prosecutor to get Biden dirt

    …read more Source:: Pittsburgh...

    Senate Republicans want to compel the whistleblower to testify in trial
    Nov25

    Senate Republicans want to compel the whistleblower to testify in trial

    Senate Republicans plan to compel the alleged whistleblower in the ongoing Ukraine scandal to testify in a Senate trial should House Democrats vote to impeach President Donald Trump.According to the Washington Examiner, “Republican members are arguing that [the alleged whistleblower’s] past position as Ukraine director and his current...