Section: The Atlantic (USA)
The Bureaucrats Who Defied the President
“America hired @realDonaldTrump to fire people like the first three witnesses we’ve seen,” Donald Trump Jr. tweeted Friday. “Career government bureaucrats and nothing more.” It was the second day of the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment hearings, and Marie Yovanovitch, a career diplomat who had served as the U.S. ambassador...
The Atlantic Politics Daily: The Other Giuliani Who Works for Trump
It’s Monday, November 18. In today’s newsletter: Andrew Giuliani, impeachment hearings, and whether American cities have measurable personalities.*” TODAY IN POLITICS »(NICHOLAS KAMM / NOAM GALAI / ASTRID STAWIARZ / GETTY / THE ATLANTIC)The Other GiulianiHe works for President Trump. His last name is Giuliani.I’m talking...
Trump Is Using His Old Playbook for Impeachment
As the impeachment inquiry gains steam, President Trump and his defenders are running their old playbook. It’s not a good playbook. It wasn’t all that persuasive the first time around. But it worked once—and the modern Republican Party doesn’t have a lot of imagination for new arguments. And what the heck—if something was good...
What Does Rudy Giuliani’s Son Do?
It’s hard to turn on cable news or scroll through Twitter these days without catching the name “Giuliani.” Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, is a central character in the House’s impeachment inquiry. Meanwhile, Rudy’s third wife, Judith Giuliani, has commanded her own headlines as she’s aired...
I Fear the Weak State
In their public testimonies, Bill Taylor, George Kent, and Masha Yovanovitch demonstrated professionalism, integrity, and plainspoken courage.I had the good fortune of seeing those qualities up close over our many years together in the diplomatic trenches—out of sight, out of mind, and far from the public spotlight. It saddens me that our fellow...
Why Trump Attacked Marie Yovanovitch
On the second day of the impeachment proceedings, President Trump couldn’t control himself on Twitter; he lashed out at Marie Yovanovich, the former ambassador to Ukraine who was subjected to a smear campaign, and who testified to that effect before Congress. Trump’s lack of control, in itself, was not unusual. But, for some reason,...
The Atlantic Politics Daily: This Article Is About Articles of Impeachment
It’s Friday, November 15. In today’s newsletter: Roger Stone, articles of impeachment, more on the Green New Deal, and questioning age limits for presidential candidates.*” TODAY IN POLITICS »(WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY)This article is about articles of impeachmentOn Friday, it was Marie Yovanovitch’s turn to face congressional...
We Still Don’t Know What Happened Between Trump and Russia
In the 1999 Senate impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania declined to vote guilty or not guilty, instead announcing his verdict as “not proven,” an old Scottish legal formulation. (Chief Justice William Rehnquist opted to record the vote as not guilty.)Twenty years later, with impeachment again in the...
A Brief History of Roger Stone
Roger Stone, the famed political consultant, seems to have played a role in every major conservative moment in the past half century. And if one quality has defined his long career in politics, it’s that he’s prone to scandal of his own making.Enter the Russia investigation. Today, Stone was found guilty of lying to the House...
Trump’s Impeachable Tweet
As they present their findings to the public, House Democrats may find it easier to let President Donald Trump build the case for impeachment himself.The testimony that Marie Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to Ukraine, delivered to Congress this morning was perhaps as politically damaging to Trump as anything presented during the first day of...
