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Trump Calls on ‘American Patriots’ to Defend Him From Impeachment
It’s happening. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D–Calif.) has started impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. The president has promised to release an unredacted transcript of his call with the Ukrainian president that triggered this impeachment inquiry. The White House has also promised to release to Congress the whistleblower...
Trump, Ukraine, and Congress’s Power of the Purse
President Donald Trump.Many are advocating impeachment in response to President Donald Trump’s apparent attempt to use withholding of $400 million in aid funds as leverage to pressure Ukraine into investigating possible malfeasance by Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. Meanwhile, critics fear that investigation and impeachment could unduly...
Nancy Pelosi Announces Trump Impeachment Inquiry Over Ukraine Scandal
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D–Calif.) has announced a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, after accusations swelled that Trump leveraged his political power to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden—the current Democratic frontrunner in the 2020 presidential election....
Trump’s Ukraine Call May Not Be Impeachable, but It Sure Looks Like an Abuse of Presidential Power
The Democrats’ latest drive to impeachment rests on a single, relatively straightforward accusation: that in a July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, President Donald Trump improperly urged the foreign leader to investigate Trump’s domestic political rival, Joe Biden, and Biden’s family—perhaps holding up...
Move Over, Russia: Impeachment Talk Now Turns on Trump Dealings With Ukraine
Impeachment is coming, impeachment is coming! We’ve been hearing that for so long and with such profoundly unearned certainty that it’s no wonder such assurances are now greeted with all the gravitas of Henny Penny squawking. Still, this time it really is different, pundits say. I am still not inclined to believe them. (And from the...
We Have Now Entered the Twilight Zone
American democracy, and the constitutional system that supports it, appear to be entering an especially dark and dangerous period. Here’s what we know about Ukraine-gate:** a complaint was filed under the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Act (50 USC 3033) regarding a matter of “urgent concern”—defined in the statute as a...
New Federal Charges Filed Against Manafort, Gates
CAMERON CARNES/UPI/NewscomPaul Manafort, former campaign leader for Donald Trump, and business partner Rick Gates face a new raft of federal charges in Special Counsel Robert Muller’s Russia-related probe for the Department of Justice. A grand jury indictment filed this afternoon accuses the two men of hiding millions of dollars in income...
Yulia Tymoshenko Warned Us About Paul Manafort Years Ago
Vereshchagin Arkhip/ZUMA Press/NewscomYulia Tymoshenko warned us about Paul Manafort years ago. In a civil complaint, the former Ukrainian prime minister accused Manafort—who would go on to chair Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign—of conspiring with Ukrainian and Russian partners to launder dirty money through “a labyrinth of...
Paul Manafort Convicted of 8 Bank and Tax Fraud Charges; Mistrial on 10 Other Charges
Jonathan Ernst/REUTERS/NewscomPaul Manafort, the former chairman of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and a veteran dweller of the D.C. “swamp” culture Trump allegedly detests, has been found guilty of eight out of 18 charges related to tax evasion and bank fraud. But the jury could not reach a conclusion on the remaining...
Manafort Sent to Jail over Accusations of Witness-Tampering
JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS/NewscomPaul Manafort, formerly President Donald Trump’s campaign manager, is heading to a jail cell after a judge revoked his bail today. Manafort faces a host of federal charges. He is accused of concealing millions of dollars in income while representing pro-Russian political interests in Ukraine, and of not...
