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    The Trump Presidency Is in Free Fall
    Nov19

    The Trump Presidency Is in Free Fall

    That old sinking feeling is back.There have occasionally been stretches of time that are good for the Trump administration. There have more often been stretches that are bad, though there is a baseline of chaos that has come to feel almost normal. And occasionally, there have been truly hellacious stretches: May 2017, when Donald Trump fired...

    Ukraine Pol: I Was Joking When I Asked Vindman To Be Our Defense Minister
    Nov19

    Ukraine Pol: I Was Joking When I Asked Vindman To Be Our Defense Minister

    During impeachment hearings on Tuesday morning, the lead Republican counsel pressed Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman on an offer he’d received to take the position of defense minister in Kiev. The line of questioning seemed designed to raise doubts about Vindman’s allegiance to the U.S. right as he was testifying about his concerns over...

    U.S. National Security Official Tells Impeachment Hearing Ukraine Offered Him Defense Minister Position
    Nov19

    U.S. National Security Official Tells Impeachment Hearing Ukraine Offered Him Defense Minister Position

    The U.S. National Security Council’s expert for Ukraine has told a Democratic-led House impeachment hearing he was offered the position of Ukraine’s defense minister three times, a revelation that Republicans could seize on to cast doubt about his testimony. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    MSNBC Host: GOP Hinting at Vindman Dual Loyalty ‘Perhaps Inspired’ by Fox News
    Nov19

    MSNBC Host: GOP Hinting at Vindman Dual Loyalty ‘Perhaps Inspired’ by Fox News

    MSNBC host at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here …read more Source:: The Daily...

    President Trump Has Found His Plumbers
    Nov19

    President Trump Has Found His Plumbers

    Last week’s Republican rallying cry on impeachment was “Hearsay!” By this morning, the focus had turned back to the whistle-blower who started it all.The consensus GOP retort to the first three public witnesses in the House impeachment inquiry—Ambassadors William Taylor and Marie Yovanovich, and George Kent, a deputy secretary of state—was...

    The Key Moments So Far In Marathon Day In The Impeachment Inquiry
    Nov19

    The Key Moments So Far In Marathon Day In The Impeachment Inquiry

    By Tuesday evening, a total of four witnesses will have marched onto Capitol Hill to testify as part of the impeachment inquiry. The first two, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a Ukraine specialist on the National Security Council, and Jennifer Williams, a foreign policy aide to Vice President Mike Pence, had listened in on the July 25 call between...

    Watchdog firm finds another troubling conflict of interest in Hunter Biden’s post at Burisma
    Nov19

    Watchdog firm finds another troubling conflict of interest in Hunter Biden’s post at Burisma

    Hunter Biden was paid both as member of the governing board and as a consultant to company management in his post at Burisma Holdings, an arrangement that is prohibited in the United States, an independent research firm reported Tuesday. Biden also received more than 12 times the comparable pay for board members at similarly sized companies. The...

    Army Officer Says Trump Was ‘Inappropriate’ to ‘Demand’ Ukrainians Probe Biden
    Nov19

    Army Officer Says Trump Was ‘Inappropriate’ to ‘Demand’ Ukrainians Probe Biden

    REUTERSAn Army officer who worked on Ukraine policy at the White House told the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry that President Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to investigate domestic political adversaries was “inappropriate” and he reported it to his superiors “out of a sense of duty.” In the inquiry’s third public...

    Vindman Blows Hole In Trump’s Professed Reason For Holding Back Military Aid
    Nov19

    Vindman Blows Hole In Trump’s Professed Reason For Holding Back Military Aid

    Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, testified Tuesday that for all of President Donald Trump’s professed concern about rooting out Ukrainian corruption, he didn’t bring it up on his two calls with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Faced with accusations of leveraging a quid pro quo —...

    Senior White House Aide Says Trump Call With Zelenskiy ‘Improper’
    Nov19

    Senior White House Aide Says Trump Call With Zelenskiy ‘Improper’

    Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, a U.S. Army officer at the National Security Council, has testified that he believes a July 25 call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s new president was “improper” and that he reported his misgivings to the chain of command because he felt it “would undermine our...