Section: TPM (USA)
McConnell Has The Votes To Block Witnesses At Trump Impeachment Trial
Senate Republicans secured the votes to block additional witnesses and documents for President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, with Sen. Lisa Murkwoski’s (R-AK) announcement Friday that she will oppose a measure seeking witnesses for the trial. With only two Republicans planning to join Democrats in a witness vote slated for Friday,...
Trump Lawyers Say We Have ‘All The Information.’ But There’s Still So Much We Don’t Know.
There’s still so much we don’t know about the Ukraine scandal. But in the words of President Trump’s defense attorney Patrick Philbin late last night, “all the information is out, now.” “We have to respect the ability of the voters to take in information,” he said. “They have had plenty of opportunity with the process they ran...
NYT: Trump Asked Bolton To Join Ukraine Pressure Campaign In Early May
President Trump tried to enlist then-national security adviser John Bolton in the Ukraine pressure campaign in early May, according to a manuscript of Bolton’s forthcoming book reported by the New York Times. Trump allegedly ordered Bolton to call Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and have him meet with Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani....
Most Bonkers Team Trump Arguments From The Impeachment Q&A Sessions
As the Senate impeachment trial hurtles to a close, the President’s lawyers and House impeachment managers wrapped up around 16 hours of arguments during the question and answer sessions — some serious, and some downright laughable. Here are some of the most ludicrous moments of the two-day presentations, courtesy of team Trump:...
Pompeo Insists There’s ‘No Condition’ For Zelensky To Visit WH But Won’t Say When He Can
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo denied on Friday that there were any conditions for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House, though America’s top diplomat wouldn’t say when that potential meeting would happen. Pompeo held a post-meeting press conference with Zelensky in Kyiv, during...
MEANWHILE: Senate Interviews IRS Whistleblower
Senate investigators interviewed in recent weeks a whistleblower who claims wrongdoing in the Internal Revenue Service’s mandatory audit of the President and Vice President, the Washington Post reports. Staffers on the Senate Finance Committee, for both Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), questioned the whistleblower for the...
Trump Team Declares Biden Is The One Who Should Be Impeached!
Joe Biden should be impeached under a legal theory laid out by Alan Dershowitz, President Trump’s legal team argued at the end of the questioning phase of the Senate impeachment trial on Thursday. A group of Republican senators asked whether unsupported allegations around Biden and a Ukrainian gas company called Burisma could amount to a...
Bipartisan Question Leads To ‘Startling Admission’ From Trump’s Legal Team
A bipartisan question from the senators prompted a major admission from President Trump’s legal team Thursday: Rudy Giuliani was not conducting foreign policy in his capacity as the President’s private attorney. The question was posed by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), and joined by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa...
After Blowback, Dershowitz Walks Back Alarming ‘Public Interest’ Defense Of Trump
Alan Dershowitz, one of President Donald Trump’s impeachment lawyers, claimed on Thursday that the media “willfully distorted” his shocking argument that presidents can do whatever they want to get reelected because said reelection is “in the public interest”–even though that’s precisely the argument he made. “They characterized my...
5 Most Notable Moments From Senate Trial’s First Day Of Questioning
Senators asked a whopping 93 questions of House impeachment managers and President Trump’s legal defense team Wednesday, the first day of the question-and-answer phase of the impeachment trial. After spending the first week of the trial in silence while House impeachment managers and President Trump’s legal team made their cases,...
