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Top Diplomat Testified Pompeo Called Hannity About Yovanovitch Smears
David Hale, the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, said in his closed-door impeachment testimony that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called Fox News host at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Sondland to U.S. Diplomat, Trump Only Only Cares About ‘Big Stuff’ Like the Biden Investigation
Chip SomodevillaThe U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland told State Department officials and staffers in Kiev that Donald Trump didn’t “give a shit about Ukraine” and only cared about the country launching an investigation into 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter. That’s according to a newly...
How Spotify and Uber Eats Could Boost the Criminal Case Against Giuliani’s Henchmen
Drew Angerer/GettyGrocery shopping, Uber Eats, a Spotify subscription, and a six-figure donation to the Trump reelection campaign’s official super PAC were among the expenses incurred by a Rudy Giuliani crony at the center of the impeachment inquiry into the president last spring.The purchases, from the mundane to the very large and...
8 Witnesses and 3 Days That Will Test the GOP’s Impeachment Defense
Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/GettyThe upcoming week on Capitol Hill will be defining for the impeachment inquiry. Eight witnesses will testify publicly over three days in what will be the second, and perhaps final, week of public impeachment hearings. Set to testify are several witnesses with firsthand knowledge of...
Chuck Todd Confronts GOP Senator: You Blame ‘Everybody’ but Trump on Ukraine Scandal
A month after at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Chris Wallace Accuses Top Republican of ‘Very Badly’ Mischaracterizing Impeachment Testimony
Fox News Sunday anchor at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Here’s a Story About Ukraine That’s Actually Fun to Read
Courtesy Sara DavidsonIn July, when I told friends I was taking a tour of Ukraine and Moldova, they were baffled. “Why?” they asked. It sounded like vacationing in Lower Slobbovia.We did not know—at that exact time in July—that President Donald Trump was pressuring Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky to dig up dirt about former Vice...
Gordon Sondland Spent Months Messaging Ukrainian Officials on WhatsApp Before July 25 Call: WaPo
Mark Wilson/GettyGordon Sondland, the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union who had a starring role in President Trump’s anti-Biden crusade in Ukraine, reportedly communicated privately with Ukrainian officials over WhatsApp for months before the now infamous July 25 call between Trump and the Ukrainian president that sparked an impeachment...
The Alleged Russian Mobsters in Trump World’s Orbit: A Dirty Dozen
Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast / Photos GettyDonald Trump knows absolutely everybody but can’t remember their names or faces, especially when they’re in trouble, and even more so when their mother tongue is Russian. Last month Congress began its inquiry into whether or not the president committed an impeachable...
Russians Delighted as Impeachment Confirms Trump Doesn’t ‘Give a S–t About Ukraine’
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastAs Russia’s state media watch impeachment proceedings against U.S. President Donald J. Trump they’re loving what they see. They don’t think the man they brag about getting elected is in much danger. They listen in delight as Republicans parrot conspiracy theories first...
