Section: TPM (USA)
Prosecutors Say They’ll Likely Let Parnas Hand Over Docs To Impeachment Inquiry
NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors said in federal court Monday that they expect to allow Lev Parnas to provide evidence for the ongoing impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. Prosecutors also said the investigation into Parnas’ activities continued, and that they expected to file a superseding indictment in his case, which...
Three Times Zelensky Mildly Pushed Back On Trump In New Interview
With the firing of more than 500 Ukrainian prosecutors, several of whom played key roles in Rudy Giuliani’s pressure campaign, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sent a message to President Trump — that his promise to root out corruption in Ukraine may be more important than pleasing Trump. The subtle push-backs continued during an...
Meadows Wants To Review House Intel’s Report. He’s Not Even On The Committee.
Trump loyalist Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), who sits on the House Oversight Committee, said that he requested to review the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment report. According to CNN Monday, Meadows said that he has yet to hear back and that he doubts that he’d be allowed to review the report early. CNN noted that Meadows argues...
Trump Parrots His Lawyer’s Line, Scolds Dems For Holding Hearing During NATO
The White House has a new lackluster line of attack on Democrats over the impeachment inquiry: They’re bad at scheduling things. White House counsel Pat Cipollone noted in his letter informing House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler (R-NY) that Trump wouldn’t attend the hearing this week that Democrats appeared to have purposely...
Fox Host Rails Against Giuliani For Being An ‘Unethical Disaster’
Fox News host Steve Hilton urged President Trump to fire Rudy Giuliani in light of a New York Times report last week that reported that Giuliani came close to securing a lucrative deal to represent Ukraine while searching for dirt on the President’s political rivals. “It turns out that the former mayor’s own personal business...
Ukraine Officials Linked To Giuliani Pressure Campaign Are Getting The Boot Over Corruption
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is taking his anti-corruption, pro-reform agenda seriously, with plans to boot more than 500 Ukrainian prosecutors from the governmental payroll by the end of the month. And some of those prosecutors are directly tied to to President Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and his pressure campaign to get Ukraine to...
Chuck Todd Tells GOPer He’s Done ‘Exactly’ What Russia’s ‘Trying To Get American Politicians To Do’
NBC News’ “Meet the Press” anchor Chuck Todd put Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) on blast after the Republican pushed yet another unhinged conspiracy theory about Ukraine election interference on Sunday. During his interview with Todd, Kennedy admitted he was wrong to argue last week that Ukraine, not Russia, may have hacked the DNC’s email...
CNN: Ukrainian Officials Open To New Probes To Improve Standing With Trump
Ukrainian officials are reportedly discussing how to improve their country’s relationship with President Trump in the midst of tensions from the impeachment inquiry. According to a CNN report Friday, two sources who recently met with Ukrainian officials said that the Ukrainian government is still open to announcing new investigations which...
Ukraine General Prosecutor Says No Formal Request For Biden-Burisma Probe
Ruslan Ryaboshapka, the general prosecutor of Ukraine, said that Attorney General William Barr has made no official move to request an investigation into Burisma and the Bidens. The investigation would be part of an effort by Trump and those in his orbit to manufacture a scandal to tarnish former Vice President Joe Biden’s candidacy via his...
This Week: Trump Administration Loses In Federal Court
The week in impeachment The initial wave of public hearings is over, but the drip-drip of impeachment related news did not come to a standstill this week. Here’s a rundown of developments you need to know: Inquiry hand-off: House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) informed his colleagues on Monday that the impeachment inquiry...
