Section: TPM (USA)
DNI Warns For The First Time That Russia Wants To Damage Biden In The 2020 Election
The Russian government is supporting efforts to damage Joe Biden and boost President Trump, counterintelligence chief William Evanina said on Friday. The statement from Evanina also says that China”prefers” for Trump to lose re-election to Biden. The new announcement comes two weeks after Evanina released a similar, but less specific statement...
DOJ Accuses Ukrainian Oligarch Pushing Biden Disinfo Of Money Laundering Scheme
The Justice Department moved to seize the U.S. assets of a Ukrainian oligarch on Thursday who has sought to fuel the Trump administration’s quest for dirt about Joe Biden. In two separate court filings, the feds accused Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky of stealing billions of dollars from a bank he co-owned and laundering the proceeds...
Trump Adviser, Impeachment Witness Who Detailed Ukraine Scheme Gets Book Deal
The former Trump administration national security official and impeachment witness Fiona Hill is set to publish a book about American politics. Hill’s book “There Is Nothing for You Here: Opportunity in an Age of Decline,” is set to be released in the fall of 2021. “The book will draw on Dr. Hill’s deep expertise in the United States...
FBI Raids Company Tied To Ukrainian Oligarch Who Pushed Biden Disinfo
FBI and IRS agents in Cleveland and Miami on Tuesday raided the offices of a company tied to a Ukrainian oligarch suspected of pushing dirt on Vice President Joe Biden. Vicki Anderson, a spokesperson for the FBI’s Cleveland office, confirmed the raids of Optima Management to TPM, declining to comment any further because the matter “is still...
Dems Subpoena Pompeo In Probe Of Senate GOP Biden-Ukraine Disinfo Campaign
House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) issued a subpoena to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday, demanding reams of documents that the State Department has already provided to Senate Republicans who are seeking damaging information about Vice President Joe Biden. Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA)...
Nunes Stays Silent As House Dems Claim Proof He Got Foreign Disinfo On Biden
House Democrats pushed House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) to say in a closed-door meeting on Wednesday whether he had received Ukraine-based disinformation about Vice President Joe Biden. Nunes declined to respond at all, saying “no” when asked if he would like to respond to the allegation that he has received a...
Federalist Society Co-Founder Calls Trump Bid To Change Election Day ‘Fascistic,’ Impeachable
The co-founder of the conservative legal organization the Federalist Society said Thursday that Trump’s bid to move Election Day was “fascistic” and worthy of impeachment. Steven Calabresi wrote in a New York Times op-ed that he’d voted for Trump, protested the Mueller investigation and opposed the President’s impeachment over...
House Dems Accuse Trump Admin Of Downplaying Election Interference
Congressional Democrats and the Trump Administration released dueling statements about election interference on Friday, as top Dem leadership hit out at the President’s election security czar for underplaying the seriousness of the threat. Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center William Evanina issued a statement on...
Dems Demand Pentagon IG Probe Of Alleged Retaliation Against Vindman
House Democrats demanded in a letter this week that the Defense Department inspector general probe retaliation against a key witness in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The heads of the House Oversight and Intelligence Committees asked Defense Department acting Inspector General Sean O’Donnell to probe “a concerted effort” by...
Trump Campaign Ad Uses Photo Of Cop Being Attacked By Protesters … In Ukraine
A new Trump campaign ad released amid the Trump administration’s deployment of federal troops to quell protests in Portland, Oregon misleadingly featured an image of pro-democracy protests in Ukraine taken in 2014. Alongside a photo of the President appearing next to law enforcement officers, the Facebook ad also features a photo of a group...
