Section: TPM (USA)
AP: State Dept Officials Knew Zelensky Was Feeling Pressured By Trump Before July Call
State Department officials were reportedly told in May that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was feeling pressured by President Donald Trump’s push for Ukraine to open an investigation into 2020 candidate Joe Biden. Two unnamed sources told the Associated Press that after Zelensky held a meeting with several advisers on May 7 to...
GOP Rep. Says ‘Heck No’ To Trump Impeachment Testimony
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) is a hard no on the idea of President Trump testifying in the impeachment inquiry. During a Monday morning interview on Fox News, the staunch Trump ally shot down the idea of the President testifying while also attacking House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA). Earlier Monday, Trump said in a tweet thread that...
House Tells Court Impeachment Probe Is Looking At Whether Trump Lied To Mueller
A lawyer for the House of Representatives told an appeals court Monday that among the issues the House is probing in its ongoing impeachment inquiry is whether President Trump lied to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. The comments came in a hearing over whether the Judiciary Committee can access certain grand jury materials...
Throughout Impeachment Inquiry, Trump Wields His Favorite Insult: Never-Trumper
To President Donald Trump, “Never-Trumper” is the dirtiest of insults. The shorthand for anti-Trump Republicans came to prominence as then-candidate Trump was gaining steam in the 2016 primaries, to the horror of some more traditional conservatives. Now, Never-Trumpers like Bill Kristol are frequently featured on cable news, Trump’s...
Jordan And Nunes ‘Reluctantly’ Ask Johnson For Info Relevant To Inquiry
House Intelligence Committee Republicans Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Devin Nunes (R-CA) are “reluctantly” asking Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) for any “firsthand information” he may have that is relevant to the impeachment inquiry. In a letter sent to Johnson over the weekend, Jordan and Nunes requested that Johnson provide any information that he has about...
Pompeo ‘Feels Under Siege’ After Hitting Rough Patch With Trump
The impeachment inquiry has tested the seemingly unbreakable bond between President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. According to an NBC News report Monday, citing four current and former senior administration officials, Trump has griped over Pompeo’s hiring of State Department officials who have provided damning testimony for...
Lutsenko, Giuliani Tied Yovanovitch’s Ouster To Help With ‘Investigations’
The Ukrainian official who promised dirt to Rudy Giuliani said that he tied pressure for the firing of Marie Yovanovitch to the investigations sought by President Donald Trump. Former Ukraine Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said in an interview with the Ukraine news website Ukrainska Pravda that during a January 2019 meeting in New York City,...
The Hill Announces That It Is Reviewing Old John Solomon Columns
The Hill Editor-In-Chief Bob Cusack sent out a memo to the staff Monday, alerting them that old opinion columns written by former editorialist John Solomon and referenced frequently in the impeachment inquiry may be annotated, corrected or fact-checked. The statement, via a CNN reporter: The Hill Editor-In-Chief Bob Cusack just sent this email...
Sondland Kept Mulvaney, Perry Looped In To Ukraine Pressure Campaign
Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland, slated to publicly testify in the impeachment inquiry on Wednesday, kept acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Energy Secretary Rick Perry apprised of the Ukraine pressure campaign, according to emails obtained by the Wall Street Journal. In one exchange, he assured the two that Ukraine...
Trump Baselessly Claims Pence Aide Is A ‘Never Trumper’ After Release Of Testimony Transcript
President Donald Trump bashed Jennifer Williams, Vice President Mike Pence’s national security adviser and a witness in the impeachment investigation, on Sunday by claiming without evidence that she was a “Never Trumper” “Tell Jennifer Williams, whoever that is, to read BOTH transcripts of the presidential calls, & see the just released...
