Section: TPM (USA)
Taylor Aide Who Reportedly Overheard Trump Call About ‘Investigations’ Will Testify Friday
The diplomatic aide who reportedly overheard a phone call in which President Donald Trump asked the EU ambassador about “the investigations” is set to testify in the House’s impeachment inquiry Friday. Acting Ukraine Ambassador Bill Taylor delivered bombshell testimony Wednesday, telling the House that one of his aides who was accompanying...
Meadows Says ‘Everyone Has Their Impression Of What Truth Is’ Amid Damning Hearing
Trump loyalist Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) made a bizarre argument on Wednesday while dismissing Acting Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor’s damning public testimony in the impeachment investigation. During the hearing, Taylor testified that one of his staffers had overheard President Donald Trump asking top diplomat Gordon Sondland in a phone...
Taylor Succinctly Shoots Down Mulvaney’s Argument At That Disastrous Presser
Last month at a train wreck press conference, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney attempted to shrug off evidence of the Trump administration trying to leverage military aid to force Ukraine to conduct an investigation into a conspiracy theory on the 2016 election that Trump routinely disseminates. “We do that all the time with...
Fox Cuts To Commercial When Schiff Starts Asking Questions At Open Hearing
Fox News interrupted its live coverage of the public hearings in House impeachment investigation on Wednesday with a commercial break the moment when House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) began to speak to the witnesses. After Acting Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor finished his opening statement, Schiff began the first round of...
Notable
Going back to my point that the career diplomats had a hard time getting their heads around the subterranean world of Trumpian conspiracy theories and crazy, notable here that the top State Department official for Russia and Ukraine had never heard of the Crowdstrike conspiracy theory before the July 25th transcript was released. Back to my...
NRCC Depicts Schiff As A Clown Amid First Public Impeachment Hearing
The National Republican Congressional Committee was quick to react to the first public impeachment hearings in a Wednesday morning tweet. Less than an hour after the public testimonies of acting Ukraine ambassador Bill Taylor and top State Department official George Kent began, the NRCC tweeted a doctored photo of House Intelligence Chair Adam...
Aides Advise Trump Not To Fire Mulvaney As Public Impeachment Hearings Begin
As the impeachment inquiry enters its public phase, aides to President Trump have advised him to hold off on firing his embattled acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. According to a Washington Post report Wednesday, three sources familiar with the discussions said that senior advisers have warned Trump that removing Mulvaney amid a high-stakes...
WaPo: Giuliani Pals Personally Told Trump Ukraine Ambassador Was Against Him Last Year
Rudy Giuliani’s indicted buddies delivered a message directly to President Donald Trump last year that the ambassador to Ukraine at the time was against him, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Trump responded by suggesting that then-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch should be fired, unnamed sources familiar with one of the Giuliani...
WH Claims Trump Isn’t Watching Public Impeachment Testimonies As He RTs Clips Of Hearing
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham claimed on Wednesday that President Donald Trump is not watching the public hearing currently underway in the House impeachment investigation. “He’s in the Oval in meetings,” Grisham told CNN. “Not watching. He’s working.” Yet Trump has already retweeted several clips of the hearing since...
In Impeachment Surprise, Taylor Unveils New Evidence Directly Implicating Trump
The acting ambassador to Ukraine dropped a bombshell Wednesday, testifying to a previously unknown conversation that President Trump had that directly implicated him in the pressure campaign against Ukraine. The explosive new claim did not come up in Taylor’s closed-door testimony — the ambassador said he’d only heard a...
