Section: TPM (USA)
The Most Pivotal Moment In The Trump Ukraine Scandal Timeline
It all comes down to April. President Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and his two now-indicted cronies had thought they had struck a deal with Kyiv for political dirt. But everything changed in a matter of days. Whatever deal the group thought they had struck fell apart with the election of President Volodymyr Zelensky, forcing Trump and Giuliani to launch...
Graham Says He Won’t Accept Senate Trial Until Whistleblower Is Exposed
Within hours of acting ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor’s public testimony Wednesday, during which he dropped an explosive new claim about a previously unknown conversation that President Trump had with EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) declared that he’s still on a crusade to expose the identity of the...
That Bombshell Call Taylor Revealed Was Quite Possibly Monitored By Russians
Despite the fact that Russians have proven themselves adept at listening in on U.S. officials’ calls made from Ukraine, Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland spoke to President Donald Trump on his cellphone from a restaurant in the country’s capitol, as top Ukraine diplomat Bill Taylor revealed Wednesday. In his testimony during the...
Only 3 House GOP Inquisitors Pushed Conspiracy Theories At Impeachment Hearing
Expectations were set for the first public impeachment hearing on Wednesday: Democrats would mine the two diplomat witnesses for the details of President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign against Ukraine, and Republicans would attempt to turn the same conspiracy theories Trump sought as political dirt into headline news. But the majority of...
Trump: ‘I Know Nothing About’ Taylor’s Bombshell Claim During Public Testimony
President Trump denied the bombshell claim that acting ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor dropped during his public impeachment testimony earlier Wednesday. In his public testimony, Taylor revealed details of a previously unknown phone conversation that President Trump had with EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland on July 26 that directly implicated the...
Trump Fires Warning Shot At Intelligence IG After First Public Impeachment Hearing
President Donald Trump made his displeasure toward his hand-picked intelligence community inspector general known on Wednesday after the first public hearing in the impeachment investigation wrapped up. When asked for his response to the testimonies of Ukraine diplomat Bill Taylor and State Department official George Kent, Trump complained that...
Cornyn Doubts Senate GOP Has Enough Votes To Dismiss Impeachment Outright
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) doubts there are enough votes in the Senate to quickly dismiss any articles of impeachment against President Trump. While the first public impeachment hearing featuring acting Ukraine Ambassador Bill Taylor and top State Department official George Kent was underway in the House, Cornyn told reporters Wednesday that he...
4 Key Moments From First Public Hearings Of Impeachment Inquiry
As House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) banged his gavel, a monumental day in a historic impeachment inquiry got underway Wednesday. A bow-tied Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent and solemn Ukraine diplomat Bill Taylor raised their right hands and the first public hearing of the inquiry began. Throughout the...
GOPers Largely Ignore Witnesses While Monologue’ing On Conspiracy Theories
House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes (R-CA) and GOP staff attorney Steve Castor seemed to have little use for the witnesses at Wednesday’s impeachment inquiry, preferring to use their time to advance sometimes baseless assertions of which the witnesses had no knowledge. A typical exchange between Nunes and top Ukraine...
Eric Trump Calls Impeachment Hearing Boring, But Keeps Tweeting About It
Like father, like son. During the first public impeachment hearing with acting Ukraine Ambassador Bill Taylor and top State Department official George Kent Wednesday, Eric Trump joined his father in rage-tweeting about the hearing Wednesday. However, unlike his father, who has yet to live-tweet original content during the hearing (he’s only...
