Section: TPM (USA)
Biden Campaign Blasts Giuliani’s Ukraine Trip Plan: ‘Blatantly Political Smear’
Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign on late Saturday slammed Rudy Giuliani’s plans to travel to Ukraine, which have now been cancelled. A campaign official responded in a statement to CNN: “It’s great to see all these strong progressive voices stand up to this attempt at a blatantly political smear which in and of itself reflects the...
Schiff Slams Trump Trying To Investigate Biden: He’s ‘Going After’ Political Rival
House Intelligence chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) slammed President Donald Trump on Sunday for claiming that he could ask the Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate 2020 rival Joe Biden. “Here the President of the United States is saying it’s perfectly okay for him — and he has said this before — to go to the attorney general and get...
Democrat Calls For Probe Into Giuliani’s Actions In Ukraine
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) raised alarm over Rudy Giuliani’s actions on behalf of President Trump in Ukraine on Friday evening and called for an investigation. Murphy wrote to the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which he sits on, and said he was “alarmed” and “deeply concerned” by Giuliani’s intentions....
Now Guiliani’s Not Going To Ukraine, Says Whole Thing Was A ‘Set Up’
The President’s personal lawyer reversed course on Friday evening and decided to not take a trip to Ukraine, where he intended to request the government launch investigations that would be politically useful to President Trump. “I will step back and just watch it unfold,” he told Fox News on Friday evening after declaring he had cancelled...
Rudes, Arch-Criminal
Rudy Giuliani has now canceled his trip to Ukraine in which he planned to pressure the new government to launch investigations into Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. But this is irrelevant. It’s not 1810. Giuliani doesn’t need a personal visit to plot his schemes. We have phones, video conferencing, private jet transnational...
Trump Claims It Would Be ‘Appropriate’ For Him To Ask Barr To Probe Biden
President Trump on Friday confirmed what many have long suspected: He thinks it’s “appropriate” for him ask his attorney general to investigate his political opponents. “Certainly it would be an appropriate thing to speak to him about, but I have not done that as of yet. … It could be a very big situation,” he said during an interview with...
Trump Campaign Tries To Distance Itself From Giuliani’s Ukraine Schemes
A spokesman for the Trump campaign on Friday tried to distance the President’s reelection effort from Rudy Giuliani’s plan to urge the Ukrainian government to conduct investigations that could help Trump politically. Yet throughout an interview on MSNBC, the spokesman, Marc Lotter, would not condemn Giuliani’s effort or commit...
This Week: Cohen Reports To Prison, Don Jr’s Subpoenaed, Barr Inches Toward Contempt
This whirlwind week began somberly for one former Trump lackey. On Monday, Michael Cohen reported to prison — but not before he took a final dig at President Trump during his last few hours in the sunlight. Meanwhile in Washington, the Justice Department and Congress have been engaged in a very public tit-for-tat over the release of the...
This Shocking Abuse of Office Continues
If you’re still worried about the collusion described in the Mueller Report forgot about that because it probably means you’re not focused enough on how President Trump’s top advisors are already, more or less openly, trying to muscle Ukraine into targeting Trump’s political enemies in the US to throw the 2020 election in...
Giuliani Is Heading To Ukraine To Push For Launch Of Probes ‘Helpful’ To Trump
Rudy Giuliani is heading to Ukraine on a mission to try to convince that country’s leaders to launch investigations that could prove politically useful for President Trump, the New York Times reported Thursday. Giuliani is reportedly in search of information regarding how the investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign’s possible...
