Section: TPM (USA)
Schiff Doesn’t Rule Out More Hearings But Says Evidence To Impeach Is ‘Overwhelming’
House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) indicated that the case to impeach President Donald Trump is already strong enough to the point where additional hearings may not be necessary on Sunday. “Are there going to be any more hearings, any more witnesses, or are you done?” asked CNN’s “State of the Union” host Jake Tapper. “We...
Dem Leader Says It’s ‘Quite Likely’ Nunes Will Be Investigated For Potential Ethics Violation
House Armed Services Committee Chair Adam Smith (D-WA) said on Saturday that Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) faces an ethics investigation for allegedly working with Lev Parnas, one of Rudy Giuliani’s indicted associates. During an interview on “AM Joy,” MSNBC host Joy Ann Reid asked Smith about a potential ethics investigation into Nunes after...
Pompeo Had Several Calls With Giuliani Before Yovanovitch’s Abrupt Ouster, Docs Confirm
Newly released documents from the State Department reveal several calls between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani approximately a month before former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was suddenly removed from her post. American Oversight, a self-described “non-partisan” watchdog organization dedicated to...
Indicted Giuliani Pal Says Nunes Met With Ousted Ukrainian Official To Dig Up Biden Dirt
Lev Parnas, one of the two indicted associates to Rudy Giuliani, says Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) met with an ousted Ukrainian official in an effort to dig up dirt on 2020 candidate Joe Biden, according to Parnas’ lawyer. “Mr. Parnas learned from former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Victor Shokin that Nunes had met with Shokin in Vienna last...
Biden: ‘Even The Ukrainians Wouldn’t Yield’ To Trump Like Lindsey Graham Did
Former Vice President Joe Biden ripped into Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Friday after the senator requested documents on Biden, Graham’s old friend, to pursue a pet conspiracy theory of President Donald Trump’s. Graham on Thursday requested materials from the State Department related to Biden and Burisma, the natural gas company that...
McCarthy Puts New Spin On His Opposition To Impeachment
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) put a new spin on Republicans’ opposition to the impeachment inquiry. In a Friday morning tweet, McCarthy argued, without any evidence to support the claim, that he’s “not so sure that Dems will even have the votes to pass impeachment.” McCarthy’s tweet also included a clip from his...
Fiona Hill Had GOPers On The Run For Downplaying Russian Meddling In 2016
The former Russia and Europe director on the White House National Security Council drew Republican fury during her impeachment inquiry testimony Thursday for accusing GOP inquisitors of downplaying Russian election meddling. In her opening statement and during the course of several hours of testimony, Dr. Fiona Hill said Republicans were playing...
Ukrainian at Center of Trump/Rudes Conspiracy Theory
The Ukrainian at the center of the “Ukraine collusion” conspiracy just posted a picture of himself hanging out with John Voight at the Trump DC hotel. Because of course he did. …read more Source::...
Grassley, Johnson Push Ukraine-DNC Conspiracy Theory With Doc Demand
One day after the House wrapped up public hearings in its impeachment inquiry, two Republican senators opened their own investigation into Ukraine. Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent a letter to the National Archives seeking records from Obama Administration-era contacts with Ukrainian officials. The request appears to set up...
Trump Weighs In On Holmes, Yovanovitch With A Heaping Dose Of Insults
President Donald Trump sounded off on the impeachment inquiry during his very lengthy call to “Fox and Friends” Friday morning, sharing some personal commentary about former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and diplomat David Holmes. In between proclamations of “no quid pro quo” and “shifty Schiff,” Trump accused Holmes of inventing a...
