Section: TPM (USA)
Giuliani: State Dept. Asked Me To Meet With Ukrainian Prez’s Aide
Rudy Giuliani said Monday night that the State Department asked him to take a meeting with a top aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the days after a July 25 phone call between Zelensky and President Trump. Appearing on Fox News’ “Hannity,” Giuliani painted a picture of a high level of State Department involvement in his...
Doocy Thinks Ukraine Scandal Is ‘Off The Rails Wrong’ If One Aspect Is True
“Fox and Friends” host Steve Doocy, who President Donald Trump ranked 12/10 for loyalty, responded to the Trump-Ukraine scandal Tuesday. During a “Fox and Friends” segment, the co-hosts weighed in on the Washington Post’s Monday night report that Trump personally ordered a hold on about $400 million in military aid to Ukraine for about a...
WaPo: Trump Ordered Delay Of Military Aid To Ukraine Before Infamous Call
President Trump directed his acting chief of staff to hold back hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid from Ukraine about a week before he had the now-infamous phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Washington post reported late Monday. According to three senior administration officials who spoke to the Post,...
Trump Posts Video Of Romney 2012 Loss After He Criticized Ukraine Call
President Trump isn’t one to resist a petty dig. After Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) tweeted a grave warning about Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian president — in which Trump reportedly asked the Ukrainian government to conjure up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden’s son — Trump tweeted out an odd video compilation. The...
House Dems Mull Creating Special Committee To Probe Trump-Ukraine Scandal
House Democratic leadership is considering whether to create a special committee that would probe President Trump’s alleged conversation with the Ukrainian president about former Vice President Joe Biden, Politico Playbook reported. According to several sources who spoke to Playbook, House Democrats are moving in this direction because it...
All Of A Sudden, Pelosi And Moderates Hurtling Towards Impeachment
As swing-district House Democrats move decisively towards impeachment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is looking more open to the prospect that she ever has. Seven purple-district Democrats penned a letter in the Washington Post Monday calling President Donald Trump’s actions with the Ukrainian President an “impeachable offense.” While...
Fox News Host Shep Smith: Trump’s Ukraine Call Is ‘The Real Issue Here,’ Not Biden
Fox News host Shep Smith on Monday dispelled the deflection President Donald Trump uses whenever he gets confronted about his controversial call with the Ukrainian president, during which Trump reportedly pressured the president to investigate 2020 rival Joe Biden. “There is no known evidence that Biden did anything wrong,” Smith said following a...
McConnell Faults Dems For Taking Intel Whistleblower Complaint Public
Reports that President Donald Trump repeatedly pressured the president of Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden’s son have roiled Washington for days, after news of an intelligence community whistleblower complaint about the incident surfaced last week. But on Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) suggested he was upset that...
House Threatens To Subpoena State Over Giuliani’s Ukraine Escapades
Three House panels investigating Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani’s attempts to push the Ukrainian government to fabricate damaging information about Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden threatened to subpoena the State Department if it refused to comply with an earlier request for information, a Monday letter shows. The letter, addressed to...
Pence Gave Ukraine the Message Too
I mentioned below that the key thing about this latest and most egregious Trump scandal is that his senior team was clearly in on it, aware of it, participated in it. One key person here is Vice President Mike Pence. Earlier this month Pence flew to Poland to fill in for President Trump in meetings with European leaders on the 80th anniversary of...
