Section: TPM (USA)
‘Lev Remembers’: Parnas’ Attorney Trolls Nunes For ‘Do Not Recall’ Defense
The attorney for Lev Parnas — a Rudy Giuliani associate who aided in the Ukraine pressure campaign and was also recently indicted for campaign finance violations — called out Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) on Twitter this week for his flimsy defense of damning call records of his contacts with Parnas. “Lev remembers what you spoke about. You don’t...
Senate GOPers Expand Effort To Probe Sketchy Ukraine Claims Pushed By Trump
With the likelihood of a Senate impeachment trial looming, President Trump’s allies in the Senate are expanding their efforts to investigate the Ukraine-related conspiracy theories that are at the heart of Trump’s pressure campaign on the country. Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and...
Matt Gaetz Admits That Yeah, Giuliani’s Ukraine Trip Is ‘A Little Weird’
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is just as puzzled as many of us are about Rudy Giuliani’s trip to Ukraine this week while the impeachment inquiry ramps up. On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that Giuliani traveled to Budapest and Kyiv this week to meet with former Ukrainian prosecutors pushing dirt on Joe Biden as part of a documentary...
Limbaugh: House Dems Show ‘Pure, Raw Hatred’ With Impeachment
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh is convinced that House Democrats’ hatred of President Trump is primarily fueling the impeachment inquiry. During an appearance on “Fox & Friends” Friday morning, Limbaugh said that Democrats have “sacrificed every bit of concern for the American people” in the midst of the impeachment inquiry....
Schiff: Trump ‘Doesn’t Give A Sh*t About What’s Good For Our Country’
House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) didn’t mince words when summing up his position on President Trump in an interview published by The New Yorker Friday. When asked by New Yorker staffer Susan Glasser on what he thought had been the most memorable testimony in the impeachment hearings, Schiff brought up diplomat David Holmes...
NYT: Trump Officials Dispute Details Of Giuliani Call Logs With WH Aides
White House officials are disputing the details of the call logs in House Intelligence Committee Democrats’ impeachment report, the New York Times reported. In an attempt to poke holes in Democrats’ case, administration officials told the Times that the call logs showing multiple contacts between Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and White...
Biden Blows Up At Iowa Voter: ‘You’re A Damn Liar, Man’
2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden attacked a voter during a town hall in Iowa on Thursday after he brought up Biden’s age and his son Hunter’s ties to the Ukrainian gas company Burisma. The unidentified voter, who said he was not a Republican, told 77-year-old Biden he had “two problems” with him as a candidate; the first one being...
How America’s System Of Legalized Corruption Brought Us To The Brink Of Impeachment
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Our broken campaign finance system allowed two Soviet-born men to use laundered political contributions to buy an audience with the president, and to make the case for warping foreign policy to advance private personal and political fortunes. This little-noticed...
Who Is Rudy Giuliani Meeting With Right Now In Kyiv? Ne’er-Do-Wells And Conspiracists
Rudy Giuliani barnstormed into Kyiv this week, doubling down on the campaign for dirt on Joe Biden and the 2016 election which will likely lead to the impeachment of his client, President Donald Trump. Giuliani’s movements, pieced together from news reports and social media posts in Ukraine, show that he’s meeting with a hodgepodge of...
‘This Man Is A Disgrace’: Giuliani Unloads On Fox News Host
Rudy Giuliani doubled down on his threat to sue Fox News host Steve Hilton, who called the President’s personal lawyer an “unethical disaster,” during a Wednesday night interview on Sinclair TV. Calling into Sinclair TV’s Eric Bolling show “America This Week” Wednesday night, Giuliani reiterated his outrage toward Hilton for urging...
