Section: TPM (USA)
Report: Pelosi Wants Impeachment Inquiry To Focus On Ukraine Scandal Only
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reportedly wants Democrats to keep a narrow scope on their impeachment inquiry efforts. The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that Pelosi and other Democratic leaders believe the impeachment inquiry ought to be confined to the scandal over President Donald Trump’s call with the president of Ukraine....
Trump Supports Transparency — From Biden And Democrats
After his administration attempted to block a whistleblower’s complaint from reaching Congress, President Donald Trump declared on Wednesday that he supports full transparency — from his 2020 rival Joe Biden and other Democrats. During a press conference at the United Nations General Assembly, Trump responded to the House’s newly...
Behind The Scenes
Around 2:30 p.m. last Thursday, TPM investigative reporter Josh Kovensky and I were having a conversation through instant message as I edited one of his articles. In the middle of this, he suddenly wrote “HUH.” Then: “I just had a breakthrough.” I continued editing, and he started working on something new. I soon learned what that breakthrough...
‘I Don’t Want To Be Involved’: Ukrainian Prez Dodges Q’s On Trump’s Pressure For Dirt
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stressed Wednesday that he wanted to stay out of the roiling American political controversy over President Donald Trump’s pressure on him to supply dirt on Joe Biden. Sitting next to Trump at their first in-person meeting, at the United Nations, Zelensky was asked if he felt any pressure from Trump to...
Dem Committee Chairs Slam White House’s ‘Shocking,’ ‘Damning’ Ukraine Memo
The chairs of the House Intelligence, Judiciary, Oversight and Foreign Affairs Committees on Wednesday released a caustic statement on the White House’s memo describing President Donald Trump’s July call with the Ukrainian president. “The transcript is an unambiguous, damning, and shocking abuse of the Office of the Presidency for...
Why The Trump-Zelensky Call Is Just The ‘Tip Of The Iceberg’
The White House’s willingness to release such a damning record of the July 25 call between President Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky suggests its account of the call is just the “tip of the iceberg” in the mushrooming scandal, experts and former officials told TPM. “This is clearly just the tip of the iceberg, but it’s...
Trump Uses Sit-Down With Ukraine Prez To Yell About His Favorite Conspiracies
When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attempted to distance himself from questions about his phone call with President Trump, the American President summed up his answer for him: “In other words, no pressure,” Trump said, after Zelensky gave a timid response, suggesting he didn’t want to get involved in the United States’...
DNI Denies Threatening To Resign Over Concern WH Would Have Him Stonewall Congress
This post has been updated. The acting director of national intelligence on Wedensday denied that he threatened to resign over concerns about the White House forcing him to stonewall Congress in upcoming testimony. The denial from Joseph Maguire came within minutes of a report from the Washington Post that he had threatened to resign if the White...
Pelosi: WH’s Ukraine Call Memo ‘Confirms The Need For An Impeachment Inquiry’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Wednesday doubled down on her decision to launch impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump after reading the White House’s memo on his call with Ukraine. “The release of the notes of the call by the White House confirms that the President engaged in behavior that undermines the integrity of...
A Definitive Timeline Of The Trump-Ukraine Story
The past few weeks have been a firestorm of new details concerning the intelligence community whistleblower and the subject of his complaint: An attempt by President Donald Trump to pressure the government of Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden, son of Trump’s leading Democratic rival Joe Biden. Yesterday, the story culminated in Speaker of...
