Section: The Blaze (USA)
Schiff makes up fictional version of Trump-Ukraine call at hearing, later says it was ‘parody’
A day after President Donald Trump released the transcript of a phone call with the president of the Ukraine at the center of Washington’s latest impeachment drama, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) decided to offer his own version of events.As part of his opening statement at a House Intelligence Committee...
Warren stumbles when asked if her new ethics plan would have prohibited the Bidens’ Ukraine dealings
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released a new ethics plan last week, focused on ending corruption in Washington and banning private lobbying of foreign governments, among other things.Warren, who happens to be gaining ground on former Vice President Joe Biden in Democratic primary polls, was asked Wednesday if her plan would allow the child of a...
Whistleblower complaint regarding President Trump’s phone call to Ukrainian president accuses Trump of soliciting interference in 2020 election
A whistleblower’s accusations about a phone call between President Donald Trump and the president of Ukraine was controversial enough to cause Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her allies in the House of Representatives to back impeachment. The White House has dismissed it as a complaint over nothing. Now the Office of...
Lindsey Graham says Democrats threatened to pull aid from Ukraine to pressure them to investigate Trump
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) accused Democrats of threatening to pull aid from Ukraine unless they investigated President Donald Trump in 2018. The admission came during an interview on Fox News with Martha MacCallum as he defended the president from accusations of impropriety related to a call he made with the Ukrainian president. MacCallum...
‘The Five’ explodes after Juan Williams accuses co-hosts of regurgitating White House talking points
The usually genial Fox News show “The Five” exploded into angry recriminations on Wednesday after Juan Williams accused the other co-hosts of regurgitating White house talking points. Williams was talking about the controversy over a phone call from President Donald Trump to the president of Ukraine when he made the snide comment...
Washington Post claims DNI threatened to resign if he couldn’t testify about whistleblower complaint. White House and DNI say it never happened.
The Washington Post reported that acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire threatened to quit if the White House did not allow him to testify before Congress later this week. But within an hour of the article’s publication, both the White House and Maguire himself had issued denials.What did the Post say?Citing “current...
Ukrainian president on Trump phone call: ‘Nobody pushed me’
Amid the ongoing firestorm of Washington, D.C.’s latest impeachment drama, the president of Ukraine says that he hasn’t felt pressured by U.S. President Donald Trump to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.At an appearance with President Trump in New York on Wednesday, President Zelensky was asked by a reporter whether or not he...
IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE? Glenn Beck reads transcript of Trump-Ukraine phone call
An unnamed whistleblower alleged that President Donald Trump threatened to withhold U.S. aid to Ukraine if their president didn’t get his government to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden’s actions regarding his son Hunter Biden’s dealings with a Ukranian natural gas firm called Burisma Holdings. Democrats immediately...
President Trump releases transcript of his phone call with the Ukrainian president that convinced Pelosi to pursue impeachment
The White House on Wednesday released a transcript of President Donald Trump’s phone conversation with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. This phone call became a major point of contention after a “whistleblower” from within the U.S. government reported that Trump had asked Zelensky to investigate Hunter Biden, the son of...
Whistleblower had ‘political bias’ against President Trump in favor of ‘rival candidate,’ according to intel IG document: report
The White House is preparing to release a document showing that intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson discovered that the whistleblower who lodged a complaint against President Donald Trump had “political bias” in favor of a “rival candidate.”Fox News reported the development late Tuesday, citing senior...
