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US Soldier Allegedly Spoke Of Bombing ‘Major News Network,’ Shared Bombmaking Info
A U.S. soldier was charged Monday for distributing information about bomb-making. He also allegedly expressed an interest in traveling to Ukraine to fight with the far-right nationalist group Azov Battalion. Jarret William Smith, 24, was arrested on Saturday, ABC News first reported. According to court documents, Smith reportedly talked with a...
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...
How Giuliani Is Conning The World Into Buying A False Biden-Ukraine Narrative
While President Trump may be breaking new ground in political corruption, his lawyer has reached a new peak in bad faith with his smears of Joe Biden. Lies, mischaracterizations, fibs — whatever word you have doesn’t fully capture what Giuliani is selling. It’s less a specific falsehood than an all-encompassing false narrative...
Ukrainian Government To The US: Please Leave Us Out Of Your Mess
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his administration don’t want anything to do with the scandal currently roiling in Washington, Reuters reported on Monday. Zelenskiy and President Donald Trump are scheduled to meet during the U.N. General Assembly this week amid reports that Trump attempted to pressure Zelenskiy to open an...
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Schumer Urges Senate GOPers To Investigate Trump Admin Over Ukraine Scandal
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called on Senate Republicans on Monday to “take immediate action” on the Trump administration’s stonewalling of a whistleblower’s complaint about President Donald Trump. Schumer sent a letter on Monday to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) urging him and his Republican colleagues...
Trump Defends Call With Ukraine, Arguing It’s ‘Important’ To Talk About Corruption
President Trump is attempting to paint the explosive narrative unfolding around a whistleblower complaint as another Democrat-fueled “witch hunt,” arguing that he only spoke to the president of Ukraine about corruption in order to develop an honest relationship with him. While making remarks to reporters on Monday at the United Nations, Trump...
The Whole Team is In on It
The only reasonable response to the President’s effort to force Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 presidential election is to demand the President resign and be prosecuted for criminal abuse of power after he leaves the White House. The President has deserved to be impeached for years. But last week’s revelations have an immediate...
Giuliani: Can’t Say ‘100%’ Trump Didn’t Use Aid As Leverage For Ukraine Biden Probe
President Trump’s lawyer wouldn’t say for sure Monday that Trump didn’t threaten to cut off aid to Ukraine if the country didn’t investigate Joe Biden’s son. In an interview with Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo, Rudy Giuliani said he couldn’t say “100%” whether Trump used $250 million in military...
Bill Weld Accuses Trump Of Treason
Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld (R) accused President Donald Trump of “treason” for his phone call with the Ukrainian President to pressure him into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden’s son. “Talk about pressuring a foreign country to interfere with and control a U.S. election. It couldn’t be clearer,” Weld said Monday...
