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Rudy Had a Secret Meeting With Zelensky’s Rival, Too
Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast/GettyIn late 2018, as he was just starting to look for dirt on the origins of the FBI investigation into Russian election meddling, President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani held a meeting with a top Ukrainian politician many in the administration believed would be the...
Nancy Pelosi to Colbert on Trump Impeachment Resolution: ‘Nobody Is Above the Law’
Scott Kowalchyk/CBSOn Thursday night, the very day the House passed an impeachment resolution (232-196, along party lines) to probe President Trump’s alleged quid pro quo in pushing Ukraine to investigate his political rivals, the Bidens, Stephen Colbert welcomed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on The Late Show for an exclusive sit-down...
Impeachment Probe Eyes Mulvaney’s Office in Early Effort to Hold Up Ukraine Aid
Win McNamee/Getty ImagesWhen the Trump administration first decided to sell Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine, officials at the Office of Management and Budget moved to temporarily pause the effort, according to multiple sources briefed on the matter. The unusual move didn’t just foreshadow the huge fight that has the president at The...
Latest Impeachment Witness: I Wasn’t Worried That Trump Broke The Law With Call
SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty ImagesTim Morrison, a senior White House official who listened to President Donald Trump’s controversial call with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, said he did not worry Trump broke the law on the call. He also said he was not aware of any meaningful material being left out of the White House’s memo on...
A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.
Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the...
Donald Trump Jr: I Wish I Was Like Hunter Biden So I Could ‘Make Millions Off of My Father’s Presidency’
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Here’s How Dumb Bill Barr’s Great Mifsud Conspiracy Story Really Is
Alex Wong/GettyAttorney General William Barr has been looking into the Maltese professor Joseph Mifsud, whose discussion with Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos helped set off the FBI investigation of possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia in 2016. It was Mifsud who told Papadopoulos about the dirt the Russians had on...
Seth Meyers Goes Off on Laura Ingraham for Smearing War Hero Alexander Vindman
NBCOn Monday Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a National Security Council official who’d sounded the alarm on the Trump administration’s concerted efforts to push Ukrainian officials to investigate political rivals Joe and Hunter Biden, at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here …read more Source:: The Daily...
Trump Sides With Indicted Oligarch Over His Own Diplomat
Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump boosted a tweet Monday promoting a controversial allegation from an indicted Ukrainian oligarch: that a top U.S. diplomat put fabricated information about the mogul in a diplomatic cable. That diplomat happens to be one of Democrats’ key impeachment witnesses. And that oligarch happens to...
Pelosi, Schiff Prep for GOP Impeachment ‘Stunts’ and Attempts to Out the Whistleblower
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