Section: TPM (USA)
Schiff: Pence May Have Intentionally Misled Panel About Zelensky Call
House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) thinks the vice president’s office may have misled his committee about the contents of his call with the Ukrainian president in September. In a letter to Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday said the office’s refusal to declassify records of his call with Ukrainian President...
Impeach Rallies Ripple Across The Country As House Prepares To Vote
Impeach rallies broke out across the country Tuesday night, as protesters of all stripes took to the streets to encourage the House to approve the articles on Wednesday. According to the New York Times, liberal groups like MoveOn.com and Indivisible organized hundreds of rallies, from Philadelphia to New Orleans. The demonstrations came the night...
Maine Democrat Says He’ll Vote For Only One Article Of Impeachment
Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) said on Tuesday that out of the House’s two articles of impeachment, he would not vote for the article that charges President Donald Trump with obstructing Congress. Golden provided the Bangor Daily News with a statement he plans to submit in the congressional record in which he explained that he will not vote for...
Dem Senators Tell GOP Chairmen To Put Up Or Shut Up About Ukraine
Republicans are facilitating “foreign interference” in the 2020 election by probing “discredited” allegations of Ukrainian involvement in the 2016 election, three Democratic Senators wrote in a Tuesday letter. The message – addressed to Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Ron Johnson (R-WS), and Charles Grassley (R-IA) – accuses the Senators of...
McConnell On Senate Impeachment Trial: ‘I’m Not Impartial About This At All’
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) doubled down Tuesday on comments he made last week indicating he was heading into a Senate impeachment trial as a defender of President Trump. “I am not an impartial juror. This is a political process, there’s not anything judicial about it. Impeachment is a political decision,” McConnell told...
A Big Connecting The Dots Moment
Stunning news out of federal court this afternoon: that mystery million dollars that Lev Parnas got from aboard was money from Dmitry Firtash, the former Manafort business partner and Putin-aligned oligarch who is currently fighting extradition to the United States to face bribery charges. We’ve had a lot of hints to date that Firtash was...
Trump Sends Pelosi Off-The-Rails Impeachment Screed For The ‘Indelible Record’
In what reads as a six-page amalgamation of his go-to impeachment tweets, President Donald Trump sent House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) a lengthy screed to preserve his thoughts about impeachment in the annals of history. “You have cheapened the importance of the very ugly word, impeachment!” he railed, accusing Democrats of being out to get him...
Despite $1 Million From Oligarch Firtash, Judge Allows Parnas To Stay Free
NEW YORK — A Swiss lawyer for Ukrainian billionaire gas middleman Dmytro Firtash wired $1 million to Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas’s wife in September 2019, prosecutors and an attorney for Parnas said on Tuesday. The revelation came in a hearing where a Manhattan federal judge denied a request from the government to revoke...
Report: Bill Taylor To Step Down As Acting Ukraine Ambassador At The End Of The Year
Acting Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor will reportedly soon leave his post at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev. Unnamed current and former officials told NBC News on Tuesday that Taylor is expected to do so on Jan. 2, roughly six months after he began filling in for Marie Yovanovitch, who was ousted in May. Politico reported on Monday that the Trump...
Rick Gates Sentenced To 45 Days In Jail, Three Years Probation
Paul Manafort associate Rick Gates was sentenced Tuesday to three years of probation and 45 days in jail, which he will be allowed to serve on weekends. He was also ordered to pay a $20,000 fine. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson noted that, in weighing the sentence, she also had to consider the signal it would send to others who committed...
