Section: The Atlantic (USA)
The Most Dangerous Form of Bribery
Thus far, the facts at issue in the impeachment inquiry are relatively undisputed. President Donald Trump’s administration conditioned Ukraine’s access to U.S. decision makers and military aid on it publicly announcing investigations that would benefit the president’s reelection campaign.Instead, the principal battleground is...
Trump’s Supporters Are Displaying the Will to Win. Democrats Are Not.
What on earth was the point of the first day of House Judiciary Committee hearings on impeachment?The House Intelligence Committee hearings in November told a coherent story. Public-spirited career personnel and a Purple Heart army officer were aligned on one side; venal and untruthful political operatives aligned on the other. Each witness was...
Impeachment Is Pushing Republicans Closer to Russia
Just how far will Republicans go in following President Donald Trump’s embrace of Russia? An answer may be crystallizing as the GOP mobilizes its defense of the president against impeachment.Both congressional Republicans and conservative commentators are defending Trump from impeachment partly by accusing Ukraine of intervening against him...
The Legal Debate About Impeachment Is Over
During Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, the three law professors called by the Democrats and the one law professor called by the Republicans disagreed on a lot. They disagreed on what George Washington thought of executive privilege. They disagreed on what Alexander Hamilton intended by insisting that impeachment be included...
Blame America, Not Russia, for the ‘Ukraine Did It’ Conspiracy Theory
In her eloquent impeachment testimony last month, Fiona Hill, a recently departed official at the National Security Council, criticized President Donald Trump and his supporters for parroting that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 elections. “This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian Security...
The Democrats’ Missed Opportunity on Impeachment
This hearing was never going to change minds.Its purpose was not to produce damning new revelations or dramatic testimony. Unlike during the Intelligence Committee hearings last month, the public did not hear new facts from key witnesses, only legal opinions from a group of law professors explaining the history of impeachment as they evaluated...
The Exhausting, Exhilarating Task of Determining Articles of Impeachment
It’s an exclusive club that members of the House Judiciary Committee are joining today: The United States has undergone impeachment just three other times in its history, and only a handful of people each time have been charged with compiling a list of the president’s impeachable offenses.James Rogan knows what that’s...
Read Jerry Nadler’s Opening Statement in the Judiciary Committee’s Impeachment Hearing
The next phase of the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump kicked off today, as the House Judiciary Committee convened its first public hearing on whether the president’s alleged wrongdoing amounts to impeachable offenses. Representative Jerry Nadler of New York, the committee’s chairman, finds himself back in the...
For America’s Closest Friends, the Abuse Keeps Coming
During a testy joint press conference at the NATO summit in London yesterday, President Donald Trump and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, argued openly over how the 70-year-old alliance should handle Russia, the Islamic State, and Turkey. When interacting with allied leaders, Trump’s predecessors have generally followed a golden...
NATO’s Trump Whisperer
Donald Trump has said it is obsolete, Emmanuel Macron argues it is suffering a “brain death,” and fewer than a third of people in Germany, France, and Spain have a favorable view of it. Questions abound over its long-term relevance; its own members are placing tariffs on one another; and through it all, Russia looms as the ever-present adversary....
