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State Dept. Aide Says He Overheard Sondland Tell Trump Ukraine President Would Do ‘Anything’
Yara Nardi/ReutersU.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland was overheard telling President Trump that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was willing to do “anything” Trump asked him to do, including “the investigation,” according to the opening statement of a new witness in the impeachment inquiry against Trump.David Holmes, a...
Republicans Thought Yovanovitch Would Be a Pushover. She Beat Them Up Instead
Nicholas Kamm / AFP/ Getty ImagesBefore she even spoke on Friday, President Donald Trump’s surrogates in Congress and conservative media expected Marie Yovanovitch to at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Trump Tampers With Witness in Ukraine Impeachment Probe as Roger Stone Convicted of Witness Tampering
If you were looking for “pizzazz,” you came to the right place.A at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Fox News Reporter Grasps at Straws: Constitution ‘Doesn’t Say Anything About Witness Intimidation’
Fox News senior Capitol Hill producer Chad Pergram provided some cover for Donald Trump on Friday after the president unleashed a Twitter attack on former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch while she was testifying before Congress, noting that “witness intimidation” isn’t featured in the Constitution as it relates to...
‘Witness Intimidation’: Trump Slimes Ambassador During Impeachment Hearing
As Marie Yovanovitch outlined the smear campaign that President Trump’s allies successfully used to oust her as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Trump decided to add to it. “Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad,” the president tweeted, insisting on his “absolute right” to appoint ambassadors. Yovanovitch had just finished describing the...
Yovanovitch: Don Jr. and Fox News Hosts ‘Amplified’ Smears Against Me
During Friday’s public impeachment hearing, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch described how conservatives and right-wing media figures repeatedly disparaged her last spring in an apparent effort by Trumpworld to sully her reputation in order to justify removing her from her post.House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam...
Transcript Shows WH Made Up Details of Trump’s Zelensky Call
GENYA SAVILOVThe release of the transcript of President Donald Trump’s first call in April with Ukrainain president-elect Volodomyr Zelensky was meant to bolster the case that Trump had nothing but good intentions in his dealings with Ukraine – but it also showed a White House summary of the same call released to the public shortly...
Trump Boasted About ‘Great’ Ukrainians at Miss Universe Pageant on First Zelensky Call
If President Trump believes a rough readout of him telling anecdotes about the Miss Universe pageant to foreign leaders will distract the impeachment inquiry, it looks like he’s sorely mistaken.Since last week, Trump and his White House staff have signaled they were ready to unveil this week a summary of the president’s first call...
Ukraine’s Anti-Russia Azov Battalion: ‘Minutemen’ or Neo-Nazi Terrorists?
KYIV—When Deputy Secretary of State George Kent at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Exclusive: Giuliani Ally Pete Sessions Was Eyed for Top Slot in Ukraine
At the same time that Rudy Giuliani and his now-indicted pals were pushing for President Donald Trump to remove at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here …read more Source:: The Daily...
