Section: TPM (USA)
Why Does Rudy Giuliani Want Trump To Bomb Iran?
It was the day of President Trump’s long awaited meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the United Nations in New York City — Sept. 24, 2019. Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani was there at the U.N., too, but he was talking about something else. “I am for regime change,” Giuliani told a crowd. “Down with the tyrants in...
All Eyes On Pelosi For Impeachment’s Next Steps
As the House returns to Washington Tuesday, a question lingers over the Capitol: when will Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) send the impeachment articles over to the Senate? When she left Washington before the holiday recess, having just presided over the historic impeachment vote adopting the articles, Pelosi played coy about her next steps. She said...
McConnell Dodges Bolton Subpoena, Schumer Demands It
Both Senate leaders took the floor for their planned addresses Monday, hours after former National Security Adviser John Bolton dropped the bombshell news that he’d be willing to testify in the impeachment trial if subpoenaed. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) referenced the news only obliquely, signaling that Bolton’s...
Following Bolton Statement, Schumer Re-Ups Call For Senate Impeachment Trial Witnesses
Reiterating his calls for additional witnesses for the coming Senate impeachment trial, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) seized on a statement Monday by former National Security Advisor John Bolton, in which Bolton said he’d testify without a court fight if subpoenaed by the Senate. “John Bolton correctly acknowledged that he...
NYT Plans To Challenge WH For Withholding 20 Emails On Ukraine Aid Freeze
The fraught relationship between the Trump administration and the New York Times has reached another level. On Friday night, the Times reported that the Trump administration is withholding 20 emails discussing the congressional freeze on Ukraine military aid between a top aide to acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and an official at the White...
It Was Manafort All Along
Josh Kovensky’s got an update here on yet more nuggets of information and clues tying Paul Manafort to the origins of the Trump/Giuliani extortion campaign in Ukraine. This particular meeting is only one part of the equation. But as we and others have explained previously it’s pretty clear that all the conspiracy theories we’re...
Pelosi Stops Short Of Threatening Impeachment Delay While Bashing McConnell
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) bashed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) refusal to commit to Senate impeachment trial witnesses, with a statement Friday that stopped short of suggesting she’d withhold the impeachment articles until he did. “The American people deserve the truth. Every Senator now faces a choice: to be...
New Mueller Docs Tie Manafort More Closely To Ukraine Pressure Campaign
New documents from the Mueller investigation tie Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort more closely to the beginnings of President Trump’s Ukraine pressure campaign. The information comes from 356 pages of FBI interview notes from the Mueller investigation that were released under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Buzzfeed and...
Trump Judge Suggests DOJ Could Ignore Order OKing Release Of Mueller Grand Jury Docs
A Trump-appointed appeals court judge and the House’s top lawyer tangled for several minutes Friday over the idea that court could authorize the Justice Department to release special counsel Robert Mueller’s grand jury materials, but not compel it to. The lawyer, House General Counsel Douglas Letter, said the premise D.C. Circuit...
Judge Lets Giuliani Bud Parnas Give House Intel iPhone, Docs
A federal judge allowed Giuliani associate Lev Parnas to hand over the contents of an iPhone and other documents to the House Intelligence Committee in a Friday morning order. Manhattan federal district judge Paul Oetken granted an unopposed request from Parnas to share the contents of the iPhone that Parnas was carrying at the time of his...
