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    Trump’s Incriminating Conversation With the Ukrainian President
    Sep25

    Trump’s Incriminating Conversation With the Ukrainian President

    As the White House prepared to release a summary of President Donald Trump’s July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, administration sources told reporters there wouldn’t be much there.They were wrong.The summary, released Wednesday morning, is a wild look into the president’s mindset and approach to his job. It...

    Transcript Shows Trump Asked Ukraine President to Probe Political Foe Biden
    Sep25

    Transcript Shows Trump Asked Ukraine President to Probe Political Foe Biden

    Myroslava Gongadze in Washington and Celia Mendoza in New York contributed to this report.NEW YORK/CAPITOL HILL — U.S. President Donald Trump asked Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate if Democratic presidential contender and former Vice President Joe Biden shut down a probe into a Ukrainian company that employed his son,...

    Did Lindsey Graham Read The Same Ukraine Call Notes That We Did?
    Sep25

    Did Lindsey Graham Read The Same Ukraine Call Notes That We Did?

    Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told reporters on Wednesday following the White House’s release of its version of President Trump’s calling with Ukraine, telling reporters he had no issue with the phone call. Graham said his only concern about the call was focused on whether Trump leveraged U.S. military aid to Ukraine to try to pressure...

    Barr Denies Involvement In Trump’s Ukraine Smear Campaign Against Biden
    Sep25

    Barr Denies Involvement In Trump’s Ukraine Smear Campaign Against Biden

    Attorney General Bill Barr denied speaking to President Donald Trump about Trump’s effort to get dirt on Joe Biden in Ukraine, the Justice Department asserted in a statement Wednesday. The statement came minutes after the White House’s memorandum of Trump’s call with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky showed Trump...

    Biden ‘Doesn’t Have The Answers’ to Ukraine Questions, CBS Contributor Says
    Sep25

    Biden ‘Doesn’t Have The Answers’ to Ukraine Questions, CBS Contributor Says

    Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden walked out of a press conference without taking questions about his son’s business dealings in Ukraine because he “doesn’t have the answers,” a CBS News contributor said Tuesday. “He walked out before taking any questions,” Molly Hooper, a Capitol Hill reporter for the Hill,...

    Trump: Media Built It Up To Be ‘Call From Hell,’ But Actually Proved How ‘Nice’ I Am
    Sep25

    Trump: Media Built It Up To Be ‘Call From Hell,’ But Actually Proved How ‘Nice’ I Am

    President Donald Trump responded to a question about the White House memo of his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Wednesday, saying it was built up to be the “call from hell.” “There was no pressure, the way you had that built up, that call, it was going to be the call from hell,” he said to assembled reporters. “It turned out to...

    The Ukraine Memo: What We Know, What We Don’t
    Sep25

    The Ukraine Memo: What We Know, What We Don’t

    The Ukraine memo: What we know, what we don’t. …read more Source:: U.S....

    Dems take up impeachment drive, say Trump betrayed his oath
    Sep25

    Dems take up impeachment drive, say Trump betrayed his oath

    WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has launched a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, yielding to mounting pressure from fellow Democrats and plunging a deeply divided nation into an election year clash between Congress and the commander in chief. The probe focuses partly on whether Trump abused his presidential powers...

    The Case for Keeping Impeachment Clean and Simple
    Sep25

    The Case for Keeping Impeachment Clean and Simple

    Jeet Heer Though Donald Trump has committed many crimes, best keep the focus tightly on the Ukrainian scandal. The post The Case for Keeping Impeachment Clean and Simple appeared first on The Nation. …read more Source:: The...

    Inside the Call: How Trump Pushed Ukraine to Probe Biden
    Sep25

    Inside the Call: How Trump Pushed Ukraine to Probe Biden

    Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast / Photos GettyPresident Donald Trump asked the leader of Ukraine to investigate his likely 2020 reelection opponent, and offered the assistance of his personal attorney and the attorney general of the United States in doing so.That’s according to a partial transcript of a July call between...