Section: The Blaze (USA)
‘Stop playing the nasty Washington game!’ — Ted Cruz slaps down reporter over question about his children
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) got into a heated interaction with a reporter after a pointed question that involved his two daughters. The exchange happened during a media briefing about the impeachment trial in the Senate on Monday. Cruz was criticizing Democrats for arguing that President Donald Trump had only sought to investigate corruption in...
‘The facts haven’t changed’: Republicans dismiss Bolton book’s impact on Senate impeachment trial
The Sunday night revelations about former White House national security adviser John Bolton’s forthcoming book have threatened to upend the Senate’s impeachment trial, but several Republican senators are saying that the news doesn’t change anything for them.The New York Times reported late Sunday that Bolton’s new book...
Mitt Romney says Bolton book revelation makes it ‘increasingly likely’ GOP senators will vote to call witnesses
Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah said Monday that former national security adviser John Bolton’s book excerpt, tying Ukraine military aid with investigations, makes it “increasingly likely” that Republican senators will vote in favor of calling witnesses during the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, according to NBC...
LIVE VIDEO: President Trump’s team takes the Senate floor again to fight Democrats’ impeachment charges, could address the recent Bolton accusations
President Donald Trump’s defense team is set to begin day two of its three-day opening arguments at 1 p.m. ET Monday. You can watch a live feed of the proceedings below once it begins. On Saturday, the president’s team began its presentation and immediately launched into its “six key facts” about the Democrats’...
Trump fires back at John Bolton over explosive Ukraine allegation in forthcoming book
President Donald Trump has strongly denied explosive allegations about his Ukraine dealings made by John Bolton, his former national security adviser, in a forthcoming book. In a series of tweets published just after midnight Monday, Trump accused Bolton of parroting falsehoods to promote book sales. “I NEVER told John Bolton that the aid...
Bombshell report: Schiff hid ‘potentially exculpatory’ evidence from Trump’s lawyers
According to President Donald Trump’s legal team, Democrats are concealing the testimony of a major witness the House questioned during its investigation into the Ukraine matter. Alex Swoyer and S.A. Miller at the Washington Times reported that House Democrats are refusing to disclose the testimony of Michael Atkinson, the intelligence...
GOP senator prepares subpoenas for Adam Schiff, whistleblower, and the Bidens to testify in Senate trial
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is preparing to file subpoena requests for multiple new witnesses to testify in President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial.According to Politico, Hawley is targeting House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, the Ukraine whistleblower, among others.”I have...
Ted Cruz nails the lawyers’ trick that ‘deceptive’ Democrats are using in the impeachment trial
With the precision of a highly-trained attorney, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz dismantled on Saturday some of the major fallacies in the Democrats’ impeachment case. In an episode of “Verdict with Ted Cruz,” the Cuban-American Republican senator from the Lone Star State broke down the old lawyers’ trick that Democrats employed in...
Trump’s team reveals how Dems ‘hid’ a major piece of evidence that absolves President Trump
If you only listened to the House Democrats’ case against President Donald Trump, one could walk away thinking that freezing foreign aid to Ukraine was an unprecedented move by the administration. But, as Townhall’s Cortney O’Brien points out, the White House’s top lawyer, Pat Cipollone, revealed to the nation and members...
Trump’s lawyers ‘kneecapped’ Adam Schiff and the Dems’ impeachment case, says Sen. Rick Scott
President Donald Trump’s lawyers were so successful at dismantling the House Democrats’ impeachment case on Saturday morning that one prominent Republican senator compared it to a mob hit. When asked by Fox News host Neil Cavuto what he thought of the arguments laid out by the president’s defense team, Florida Republican Sen....
