Section: TPM (USA)
Tony Blinken On Trump-Ukraine Call: ‘This Is Worse Than We Feared’
Tony Blinken, a former national security official and current senior adviser to Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden’s campaign, weighed in on the political firestorm over President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine into manufacturing political dirt on Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden on Wednesday. Shortly after the White House...
Schiff Lambasts Barr, DOJ For Interfering In Whistleblower Complaint
House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) slammed Attorney General Bill Barr and the Department of Justice on Wednesday for helping President Donald Trump cover up a whistleblower’s complaint. During a press conference on the Ukraine scandal, Schiff said that Trump invoking Barr in his request for Ukraine to investigate Joe...
Trump Grasps At Fox News’ Dismissal Of White House’s Ukraine Call Memo
As the explosive Ukraine scandal continues to unfold, President Donald Trump found refuge in his favorite cable news network on Wednesday to downplay the White House’s memo on Trump’s call with Ukraine. After the White House released its notes on Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that revealed Trump...
Romney On Ukraine Call Memo: ‘This Remains Extremely Troubling’
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) remains a lone voice in his party, calling the White House memo of President Donald Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “deeply troubling” on Wednesday. While speaking at The Atlantic Festival in Washington, Romney added that while he’s not as focused on the “quid pro quo” nature of the...
Nadler: Barr Must Recuse, Trump ‘Dragged The Attorney General Into This Mess’
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NJ) said Wednesday that Attorney General Bill Barr should recuse himself in light of the revelation Wednesday that Trump told the Ukrainian president he should contact Barr to discuss dirt on Joe Biden. During a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25, the memorandum of...
Gaetz Reveals That Trump Invited Him, Other Republicans To Review Call Memo
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, said Wednesday that the President invited him and other Republicans to the White House this morning to jointly review the memo. He initially dodged MSNBC host Hallie Jackson’s follow-up questions about who was in the room and whether Trump only invited Republicans, but did...
Barr Denies Involvement In Trump’s Ukraine Smear Campaign Against Biden
Attorney General Bill Barr denied speaking to President Donald Trump about Trump’s effort to get dirt on Joe Biden in Ukraine, the Justice Department asserted in a statement Wednesday. The statement came minutes after the White House’s memorandum of Trump’s call with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky showed Trump...
Zelensky Asked About Military Aid. Trump Replied: ‘Do Us A Favor.’
The White House’s record of a July 25 phone call shows Trump demanding Ukraine “do us a favor” after the country’s president Volodymyr Zelensky raised the prospect of further military aid from the U.S. According to the records released by the White House on Wednesday, Zelensky thanked the U.S. for supplying Ukraine with Javelin...
Trump: Media Built It Up To Be ‘Call From Hell,’ But Actually Proved How ‘Nice’ I Am
President Donald Trump responded to a question about the White House memo of his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Wednesday, saying it was built up to be the “call from hell.” “There was no pressure, the way you had that built up, that call, it was going to be the call from hell,” he said to assembled reporters. “It turned out to...
Did Lindsey Graham Read The Same Ukraine Call Notes That We Did?
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told reporters on Wednesday following the White House’s release of its version of President Trump’s calling with Ukraine, telling reporters he had no issue with the phone call. Graham said his only concern about the call was focused on whether Trump leveraged U.S. military aid to Ukraine to try to pressure...
