Section: The Washington Times (USA)
Barney Frank: Withholding aid from Ukraine makes Donald Trump an accessory to murder
President Trump could be considered an accessory to murder for withholding aid from Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression, former congressman Barney Frank said Friday. Mr. Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat who served in the House of Representatives for more than 20 years, made the suggestion on HBO’s “Real Time … …read...
Kurt Volker resigns as U.S. special envoy for Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — Kurt Volker, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO caught in the middle of a whistleblower complaint over President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, resigned Friday from his post as special envoy to the Eastern European nation, according to a U.S. official. The official said Volker told Secretary of … …read more...
US official: Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine has resigned
WASHINGTON (AP) – Kurt Volker, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO caught in the middle of a whistleblower complaint over the President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, resigned Friday from his post as special envoy to the Eastern European nation, according to a U.S. official. The official said Volker told … …read more...
US ambassador pressed Ukraine corruption fight before ouster
WASHINGTON (AP) – Months before the call that set off an impeachment inquiry, many in the diplomatic community were alarmed by the Trump administration’s abrupt removal of a career diplomat from her post as ambassador to Ukraine. The ambassador’s ouster, and the campaign against her that preceded it, are now … …read...
Kremlin says it hopes U.S. wouldn’t release Trump-Putin calls
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia voiced hope Friday that the U.S. administration wouldn’t publish private conversations between the two nations’ presidents, like it did with Ukraine. The rough transcript of Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky released by the White House Wednesday shows that President Trump urged Ukraine...
Joseph Maguire rejects Ukraine cover-up, concedes whistleblower complaint ‘unprecedented’
An intelligence community whistleblower said Ukrainian officials emerged from a July phone call with President Trump convinced they needed to investigate former Vice President Joseph R. Biden and the Democratic Party in order to get on Mr. Trump’s good side, according to documents made public Thursday. The whistleblower has roiled …...
Joe Biden Ukraine questions loom over 2020 campaign
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Ken French says he is open to backing former Vice President Joseph R. Biden in the first-in-the-nation presidential primary, but first he wants more clarity on whether his son Hunter’s business dealings in Ukraine were “on the up-and-up.” “As a voter, that is a concern,” said Mr. …...
Germany quiet on Trump, Ukraine badmouthing during call
BERLIN (AP) – During a telephone conversation that now underlies an impeachment inquiry, President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy briefly bantered about a U.S. ally in Europe. “Germany does almost nothing for you, all they do is talk,” Trump told his counterpart in Kyiv. Zelenskiy agreed, replying,...
Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian leader, bristles at release of Trump transcript
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president says his comments in a conversation with U.S. President Trump shouldn’t have been publicly released and is playing down Ukraine’s investigation of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. The White House published a rough transcript of Trump’s call with Ukrainian President...
Donald Trump-Ukraine transcript shows no ‘quid pro quo’
President Trump did not explicitly pressure the president of Ukraine for an investigation of Democratic front-runner Joseph R. Biden and his son in exchange for promised U.S. military aid, according to a government transcript released Wednesday, an account that the president said wrecks Democrats’ push for impeachment even as he …...
