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    Trump Still Hasn’t Forced Ukraine To Fabricate Dirt On Biden
    Oct04

    Trump Still Hasn’t Forced Ukraine To Fabricate Dirt On Biden

    No, President Trump has not won his pressure campaign to get the Ukrainian government to manufacture dirt on his opponents. Nonetheless, some headlines this morning are suggesting that Ukraine will review the investigation of a Ukrainian natural gas company where Hunter Biden served on the board. The reality is subtler, and more complicated, than...

    The Fragility of the Trump-Pence Marriage
    Oct04

    The Fragility of the Trump-Pence Marriage

    It was the kind of performance that’s made Mike Pence’s career.Speaking to reporters yesterday in Arizona—his voice slow with that wholesome midwestern drawl, his eyebrows lifted more in sorrow than in anger—the vice president came valiantly to the defense of his persecuted boss amid growing controversy over President Donald...

    White House Will Refuse To Cooperate With Impeachment Probe
    Oct04

    White House Will Refuse To Cooperate With Impeachment Probe

    The White House plans to formally tell House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as early as Friday that it will not cooperate with the House’s impeachment probe, the Associated Press reported. The White House Counsel’s Office is preparing a letter to send Pelosi arguing that because the impeachment inquiry was not opened with a full House...

    Ukraine Reviews Closed Case Into Gas Company That Employed Hunter Biden
    Oct04

    Ukraine Reviews Closed Case Into Gas Company That Employed Hunter Biden

    (ZHYTOMYR, Ukraine) — Ukraine’s Prosecutor General said on Friday that his office is reviewing all the cases that were closed by his predecessors, including several related to the owner of a gas company where former Vice President Joe Biden’s son sat on the board. Ruslan Ryaboshapka’s comments came amid an impeachment inquiry...

    Rick Perry Eyes Exit Just As He Gets Roped Into Ukraine Scandal
    Oct04

    Rick Perry Eyes Exit Just As He Gets Roped Into Ukraine Scandal

    Another one bites the dust. In the wake of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) sending a letter to Energy Secretary Rick Perry about his U.S.-Ukrainian dealings, a resignation is reportedly in the cards for the Trump administration official who has largely flown under the radar prior to the scandal. According to reports from Politico and the New York Times...

    The Coveted, Overpriced Missile at the Heart of Trump’s Ukraine Scandal
    Oct04

    The Coveted, Overpriced Missile at the Heart of Trump’s Ukraine Scandal

    However narrow the managers may try to make it, the impeachment inquiry that has finally engulfed the presidency of Donald Trump after nearly three years of malfeasance is a scandalous goulash: a bald attempt to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 presidential election, to strongarm a foreign leader into cooperation, to retain power at all...

    Treason (!), Sedition, and Trump Derangement Syndrome
    Oct04

    Treason (!), Sedition, and Trump Derangement Syndrome

    I understand that actually taking seriously what the President of the United States says and writes brings with it the risk of being accused, at least by the more vigorous of Trump’s defenders among our readers, of having succumbed to Trump Derangement Syndrome. (More about that below.) But he is, as his stoutest defenders continually...

    Ukraine to review investigation of company tied to Hunter Biden
    Oct04

    Ukraine to review investigation of company tied to Hunter Biden

    Ruslan Ryaboshapka, Ukraine’s top prosecutor, said the decision to review the cases was not specifically linked to Hunter Biden or Trump’s allegation. …read more Source:: USA...

    Trump Brazenly Suggests Ukraine, China Should Do Opposition Research for His 2020 Campaign
    Oct04

    Trump Brazenly Suggests Ukraine, China Should Do Opposition Research for His 2020 Campaign

    L’état, c’est moi. A recurring theme throughout Donald Trump’s presidency has been his inability to distinguish between the interests of the country and the interests of Donald Trump. This has manifested itself in myriad ways, from the use of Trump hotels for official state business to Trump’s insistence that negative news...

    This Is Normal! Trump Claims Foreign Political Pressure Campaigns Happen ‘All The Time’
    Oct04

    This Is Normal! Trump Claims Foreign Political Pressure Campaigns Happen ‘All The Time’

    In light of news that State Department officials actively pressed Ukraine to announce a probe into former Vice President Joe Biden in exchange for a White House visit, President Trump is, once again, proclaiming his innocence. After House Democrats released explosive text messages that show two U.S. ambassadors helped draft the exact language of...