Section: The Daily Signal (USA)
In a Blistering Letter, White House Tells Democrats There Will Be No Cooperation With ‘Illegitimate’ Impeachment Inquiry
The White House said in a blistering letter sent Tuesday to top House Democrats that officials in the executive branch will not cooperate with House Democrats’ “constitutionally illegitimate” impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. In the letter, White House counsel Pat Cipollone accused Democrats of attempting to both overturn the...
Sen. Lindsey Graham Invites Rudy Giuliani to Testify on Ukraine Concerns
The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Lindsey Graham, has invited Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, to testify before his committee amid House Democrats’ move to launch an impeachment inquiry into the president. Giuliani has been vocal about stories of corruption in Ukraine, sounding off on...
What You Need to Know About Trump’s Syria Move
Heritage Foundation foreign policy expert Jim Carafano weighs in on President Donald Trump’s decision to move troops around in Syria, after talking with the Turkish president. Carafano explains how this will affect the Kurds, whether it could boost ISIS, and why we’re in Syria in the first place. Read the lightly edited interview...
The Unfairness of the Left’s Impeachment Push Against Trump
What would you do if you were prosecuted and the prosecutors never named the alleged crime? Or if they kept changing the rules by which they were prosecuting you? How about if the prosecutorial team suggested you be arrested and held in solitary confinement before they even stated the charge? In fact, what if they repeatedly admitted that their...
Reactions to My Tweet Reveal the Ignorant Brutality of Young Socialists and Communists
An eye-opening social experiment unfolded on my Twitter feed over the past several days that reveals a lot about America’s new brand of young communists and socialists. Not to bury the lede: Yes, they are still as repugnantly brutal as their predecessors in St. Petersburg and Phnom Pehn—but today they add ignorance and infantilism to the...
‘Plausible’ Ukrainians Meddled in 2016, Former Envoy Testifies, but He Doubts Biden Allegations
Kurt Volker, the former envoy to Ukraine, told Congress that he believed it was “plausible” that individual Ukrainians had meddled in the 2016 U.S. election, bolstering one of the concerns that President Donald Trump and personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani have floated publicly about Ukraine. But Volker poured cold water on another theory promoted by...
Why Impeachment Isn’t the Top Story in Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine—Believe it or not, the ongoing impeachment drama in the United States wasn’t the biggest news story this week in Ukraine. Rather, Ukrainians are focused on news much closer to home—the prospect of rejuvenated peace talks with Moscow to end the war in Ukraine’s embattled eastern Donbas region that has lasted five and a...
Here Are Texts Among US Diplomats on Trump, the Bidens, and Ukraine
U.S. ambassadors dangled a potential face-to-face meeting with President Donald Trump in an apparent effort to compel Ukraine’s president to investigate a Ukrainian gas company linked to Joe Biden’s son, according to text messages released Thursday night by House Democrats. Kurt Volker, the now-former special envoy to Ukraine,...
Ex-British Spy’s Obama State Department Contacts Avoid Scrutiny
Officials in the Obama State Department in 2016 actively worked with a British intelligence operative, Christopher Steele, to disseminate and investigate allegations against Donald Trump and his presidential campaign. That operation bears at least some similarity to a saga unfolding in the Trump State Department involving Rudy Giuliani, the Trump...
Why Impeachment Isn’t Merited
President Trump is a bull in a china shop. He says inadvisable things to inadvisable people, mainly because he is inadvisable–literally no one can advise him. The vast majority of things Trump says are ignored or brushed off by those who understand the difference between bloviation and manipulation. Still, Trump’s constant stream of noise...
