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NYT: Pompeo, Bolton, And Defense Sec. Esper Tried To Convince Trump To Release Ukraine Aid
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, then-National Security Adviser John Bolton, and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper reportedly tried to persuade President Donald Trump to release the congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine that he had frozen. The New York Times reported on Sunday that the three senior officials had met with Trump in the Oval...
For Ukraine, Impeachment Creates A ‘Minefield’ Amid ‘Nonstop Catastrophes’
As President Trump faces the third impeachment trial in U.S. history over his attempt to extort Ukraine into becoming a political bludgeon for his 2020 re-election campaign, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is headed to Kyiv. Starting on Jan. 3, he’ll meet with top Ukrainian officials in a trip that the State Department describes as set “to...
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Notable that in the course of an otherwise valuable article the Times has promoted the Ukraine collusion conspiracy theories from discredited or false to “unfounded or overblown.” …read more Source::...
Not Just Ukraine: Giuliani Meddled In Other Foreign Affairs Too
President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani spoke on the phone with the president of Venezuela in September 2018, a pivotal moment in the rising tensions between the U.S. and the South American country, the Washington Post reported. Giuliani and then-Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) — who is believed to be the congressman mentioned in the...
Graham Now Worries Giuliani’s ‘Information’ From Ukraine Might Be Russian Propaganda
Senate Judiciary Chair Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who was eager to hear whatever dirt Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani claims to have on Joe Biden several weeks ago, now seems to have some misgivings. In an interview with the Daily Beast published on Sunday, Graham advised Giuliani to have the information on Biden that he supposedly found in Ukraine vetted...
The Evangelical War Over Impeachment Has Been A Long Time Coming
When Christianity Today published an editorial calling for the removal of President Trump from office, the media seized on the article, pointing to it as proof of a materializing crack in a demographic often painted as Trump’s most loyal base of support. But, according to several prominent evangelicals who have long been critical of Trump,...
Trump Feeds Right Wing Push To Name Ukraine Whistleblower
President Trump isn’t done with his crusade to expose the identity of the whistleblower whose complaint detailing the Ukraine pressure campaign sparked the impeachment inquiry. On Thursday night, the President retweeted an article from the Washington Examiner that names the person that Trump’s allies allege to be the whistleblower....
Trump Hostilely Dodges Question On Origins Of His Ukraine Conspiracy Theory
When asked on Christmas what Russian President Vladimir Putin might have said to convince him that Ukraine, and not Russia, interfered in the 2016 election, President Donald Trump lashed out and dodged away. “You’re putting words in somebody’s mouth,” Trump retorted, per New York Magazine. “Who are you referring to? Me? I never said...
Ukraine Announces Agreement To Buy More Javelins From The US
Ukraine and the US signed an agreement for the delivery of a second round of Javelin anti-tank missiles, Ukrainian Defense Minister Anatoly Petrenko said on Thursday. The agreement to deliver the advanced missile system comes months into a scandal generated by the Trump administration’s withholding of $391 million in military aid this...
Officials Who Spoke Out Against Trump Continue To Pay The Price
President Donald Trump and his loyal Republicans have turned against many of his own foreign policy apparatuses since the impeachment inquiry, leaving those officials who spoke out against him to pay the price in the workplace. According to the Washington Post, an uptick of angry tweets from Trump sends armed security officers to the...
